At 12.30 A.M.

on the 5th September, during a whole N.E. gale with very heavy sea, it was reported to the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester that a vessel was ashore on the North Bank. The Life- boat was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the steam drifter Test, of Lowestoft, with ten hands aboard. She was hard aground about 100 yards north of the North Pier. The Life-boat anchored and veered down to her, when the master at once engaged the services of the crew and that of a tug to try and get his vessel afloat. Life-boatmen were put on board," an anchor run out, and with the flood making she was towed off and taken into safety..