In response to a message, received through the Coast- guard, stating that a shipwrecked crew were taking refuge on the Long Sand Light-vessel, the No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched at 6.55 P.M.

on the 22nd July. There was a fresh S.W. gale at the time and the sea was very rough. At 11.30 P.M. the boat reached the Light-vessel and there found the crew of the ketch Francis, of London, their vessel having been totally wrecked on the Long Sand whilst bound from Antwerp. As soon as the vessel stranded they took to their boat and made for the Light-vessel which they reached in safety. The men were, on the arrival of the Life-boat, at once taken on board and she made for home, arriving at 11 A.M., having been at sea upwards of sixteen hours..