Shortly be- fore 3 A.M. on the 28th November, a telephone message was received from Thorpe Coastguard Station, stating that a steamer was ashore and in need of assistance. The No. 2 Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was very promptly launched, and proceeded under sail to the scene of the casualty. She found the steamer Thyra, of Stockholm, with twenty people on board, had stranded whilst bound from Sundsvall to London with a cargo of timber. The Life-boat was at once engaged by the Captain to try and save the vessel and, at his request the Life- boatmen jettisoned about 200 tons of the deck cargo, and eventually succeeded in floating the vessel. As no further assistance was required the boat returned to her station..