In response to signals of distress from a vessel at anchor on the north-west side of the Hugo Bank, the Life- boat Charlie Medland was launched shortly after 3 P.M. on the 5th January.

They found the brigantine Perseverance dragging her anchors and swept by heavy seas. The captain considered it advisable to leave his vessel, as the crew were in considerable danger; they were therefore landed by the Life-boat.

The vessel was bound from Bordeaux to Swansea with a cargo of pit-props, and after the men had been taken off, she was towed into Swansea by a local tug..