WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE—In a light wind, a moderate sea and hazy weather, on the morning of the 28th June, a telephone message was received from the Grunfleet Lighthouse reporting a barque ashore. The crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company were summoned and the boat was taken on her transporting carriage along the beach and launched at the East Terrace breakwater at 7.15. Proceeding under oars and sail the boat was picked up by a steam-tug, which kindly towed her near the stranded vessel, which was the Argo, of Tvedestrand, bound from Hnsnm for London with firewood. She was reached at 8.45, and on boarding her the coxswain of the Life-boat ascertained that she was leaking badly, and he agreed with the master that the Life-boat men should assist at the pumps and help to throw the deck cargo overboard, so as to lighten the ship.

These operations were continued until high water, but she did not get off the sand. The wind then springing up from the E. caused the sea to increase, and the Life-boat men consented to remain, until the tide again made, when, with the help of two steam-tugs, the barque was got clear of the sand; only just in time, for as she left it the tide was commencing to ebb. She was assisted into Harwich, her rudder being disabled, and was left at anchor there, the Life-boat regaining her station shortly after noon on the following day. The barque had a crew of thirteen men..