The Coxswain of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave was called by a boatman in the early morning of the 2nd May, as the South Goodwin Light-vessel was firing signals. He at once proceeded to the beach, and seeing a large ship in dangerous proximity to the Goodwin Sands, summoned the crew and launched the Life-boat. The vessel proved to be the ship Lonsdale, of Liverpool, bound from Newcastle to Chili. They, found her riding very heavily close to the sands, having already lost one anchor, and her sails had blown away; the Life-boatmen were engaged to try and get the vessel clear, and this they succeeded in doing during the evening, returning ashore at midnight..