8.45 A.M. on the 23rd July, the Coastguard reported that a Lowestoft smack was ashore on the north part of the Barrow Sands.

Coxswain Haylett at once assembled the crew and kept the smack under observation for some time before launch- ing, but seeing that she could not get off the sands and was bumping badly he launched the Life-boat Covent Garden and proceeded to her assistance. The vessel proved to be the smack John and Emma, homeward bound from .the fish- ing-ground. The Coxswain asked the master if he required assistance, and he replied that he intended to try and refloat his vessel, but that he would be glad if the Life-boat would stand by him as the weather was tempestuous— a strong W.S.W. wind prevailed at the time with a choppy sea. About two hours later a tug arrived from Lowes- toft, and after towing for about fifteen minutes got the vessel off. The Life- boat then returned ashore..