At 8.45 in the morning of the 2nd April guns were heard from the Haisborough and Would Light-vessels, and in response the Palling No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched. On reaching the Haisborough Sands the steamer Caithness, of New- castle, was found ashore in the vicinity of the Middle Buoy. At the request of the master the Life-boat " stood by " the steamer until she floated, and, no further assistance being required, the boat returned to her station. At the time of the casualty the Caithness was bound from Blyth to Bombay with a cargo of coal. When the steamer floated she drifted on to the Life-boat, which was lying at anchor, and in order to save the boat and the crew from disaster it was necessary for the Coxswain to cut the Life-boat's cable..