During tine cold weather on the 19th April the | Coxswain, John Swan, observed a man in a small boat trying to reach a j smack which was outside the harbour.

After several attempts one of the oars broke and the boat began to drift to- i wards Holm Sands. Seeing that the < man's life was in danger, the Coxswain assembled the crew of the Life-boat Kentwell, and launched. The boat was ; picked up in a helpless condition just on i the edge of the Sand, and the man was taken into the Life-boat and conveyed ashore. The boat belonged to the trawler I Pet, of Lowestoft..