At about noon on the llth September a vessel was observed off Southwold with a considerable list, and a signal of distress in her rigging. As a N.N.E. gale was blowing with a heavy swell, and the crew could be seen working hard at the pumps, it was decided to launch the No. 2 Life-boat Rescue. The Life-boat was taken down to the ferry and launched into the river, and on reaching the vessel the Master stated that he required help as his vessel was making a lot of water, after encountering a gale in the North Sea. Eight Life-boatmen were put on board to navigate the vessel and man the pumps, and with the boat in close attendance they succeeded in getting the vessel safely into harbour, where they pumped her dry. The vessel was the brigantine George Casson of Carnarvon; she carried a crew of six men, and was bound from Predrikstad to Menai Bridge with a cargo of timber..