At 8.30 P.M.

on the 27th February a message was received from the Coastguard at Mundesley stating that a vessel was burning flares continually off" that place.

The Life-boat Louisa Heartwell was launched, and on reaching the vessel they found her in a very dangerous position, riding within about a quarter of a mile of the shore with two anchors down. The vessel was the ketch Industry, of Hull, bound from that port to Colchester with a cargo of linseed.

The master asked the Life-boatmen to assist him to get his vessel into a place of safety as she was badly disabled, and he himself had an injured hand. The Life-boat stood by the ketch until daylight, when the tug United Service, of Yarmouth, came on the scene.

The vessel was then taken in tow and, accompanied by the Life-boat, towed to Yarmouth Roads..