Bed port fires having been observed on the outside part of the Middle Scroby Sand, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N. accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 4th July, the crew of the Lifeboat Beanehamp were summoned and at 3.5 A.M. the boat was launched. She sailed to the sand and found the ketch Via, of Ramsgate, bound from the fishing grounds for Lowestoft, stranded amongst broken water. As she was abandoned, it was decided to leave some of the Lifeboatmen on board, and that the boat should proceed to the aid of the vessel's crew, who were seen in their boat about a mile distant, but before the Life-boat could reach them, a steam-tug coming out from Yarmouth harbour picked them up. The tug and Life-boat then returned to the ketch, found she had beaten off the sand and took her into the harbour.