During a very thick fog on the 5th January a message was received from the Cross Light-vessel by wireless telegraphy stating a steamer was ashore on the sand. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were assembled and the boat launched. The sea was smooth at the time, but there •was a heavy swell on the saads. After searching for half an hour in the fog the Life-boat fell in with the s.s. Orkla, of Leith, bound from that port to Alexandra with a general cargo, on the sand with three tugs in attendance.

The captain asked the Coxswain to stand by until high water, when the vessel floated; the Life-boatmen were then engaged to assist to save the vessel and took her to Yarmouth Road, where she anchored..