About noon on the 31st July a small fishing smack, the Fawn, of Yarmouth, was seen to be aground on the east side of the Barber Sands. As the sea, which was very broken on the sands, commenced break- ing over the smack, and the crew had no small boat by which to leave her, the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was launched and proceeded to her. The \ fishing vessel was rolling and bumping very heavily, and she seemed likely to go to pieces, but the master hoped tosave her and asked the Coxswain of the Life-boat to stand by him and see if she would come clear on the rising tide.

Some three hours later this occurred, the smack driving over the sands into deep water. It was then seen that the services of the Life-boat were no longer required and the Nancy Lucy returned ashore..