At 5.30 A.M.

on the 20th February, during a N.N. W.

gale, with snow-squalls and a very heavy sea, the Coxswains and Coastguard observed a vessel in distress about half a mile south of Palling. The crew and helpers of the No. 1 Life-boat, 54<7« West Norfolk Regiment, were at once called out and the horses sent for. With great promptness the Life-boat was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the ketch Lily of Harwich, bound from London to Newcastle with a cargo of old railway iron.

There were a crew of four hands on board, together with two dogs and a cat, and all were successfully rescued.

Owing to the strong tide the Life-boat made for Waxham and landed them there..