Early in the morning of the 17th September during a strong gale from N.N.W. with heavy rain squalls, a messenger arrived at Palling and reported that a vessel was ashore about three miles to the north- ward of the station. The crew and launchers were at once summoned and horses were sent for, and with the least possible delay the No. 1 Life-boat 54

Communication was then obtained by ropes and a tail block, and by this means the crew of three hands were saved. The vessel was the barge Servic, of London, bound from Goole to Newhaven with a cargo of coal..