On the 5th April a whole easterly gale, accompanied by snow and sleet showers, swept the North Sea and caused a very rough sea off Harwich. The steam Life-boat City of Glasgow was called out in the morning to a small steamer, but she managed to get out of danger and the Life-boat returned ashore. Soon after 2 P.M. the Coastguard reported another vessel in distress, and the Life-boat again put to sea. She found the brigantine Volant, of Hull, with a crew of six men, bound from London to Hull, in an unmanage- able condition owing to her cables parting. The Life-boatmen were engaged to save the vessel, and they assisted her into the port of Brightlingsea..