The Clacton Life- boat was launched at 12.20 P.M. on 13th November to a barge which was ashore on the West Gunfleet Sands.

The vessel was the barge Jumbo, of London, bound from Sheerness to Ipswich with a cargo of cement. The Life-boat stood by the barge -until she floated on the rising tide, and then proceeded with her for some little distance on her passage. When it was ascertained that the barge was not making water, the Life-boat left her and returned to Clacton, where she arrived at 2.50 P.M..