At 9.30 P.M. on the 26th September a vessel was ob- served making signals of distress on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were immediately assembled and the boat launched. She found the steam drifter Boadicea, of Yarmouth, laden with fish, ashore on the middle part of the Sands, and the master at once employed the Life-boatmen to refloat his vessel. At 3 A.M. next morning they succeeded, and then took the vessel and her crew of ten hands in safety to Yarmouth Harbour. There was a strong southerly breeze, with a heavy sea on the Sands, and the weather at the time of the casualty was hazy..