About 11 o'clock in the morning of the 6th July a ketch stranded on the Barber Sands. The accident was observed, and as the vessel failed to float off the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was despatched to her assistance. There was a strong south- westerly breeze with heavy squalls and the sea was rough. On arriving at the vessel, which proved to be the ketch Charlotte Kilner of Goole, the master requested her to stand by him whilst efforts were made to get the vessel off the sand. The boat therefore remained for about three hours when with the rising tide the vessel floated; during this time however the ketch was bumping heavily and leaking, but the damage sustained was not sufficient to prevent her proceeding when clear of the sand to Exmouth, where she was bound..