A tele- phone message from the Gunfleet Light- house at 8.31 A.M. on the 15th February reported that a vessel was on the Gunfleet Sands. The Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 promptly proceeded to the place indicated and found the steam ketch Dunnikier, of Kirkcaldy, aground.

The Life-boat stood by her for some hours, and then returned home leaving a tug with the ketch to assist her if necessary, the men on lioard being in no danger. The ketch at the time was bound from Montrose to London with a cargo of potatoes, but went on to the sands in the prevailing haze..