At 5 A.M. on the 6th December the Coastguard reported that a steamer was making flares for assistance to the north of the Light- house. The crew of the Life-boat were immediately assembled and the boat launched. The steamer proved to be the Lady Ann, of Sunderland, bound from Colchester to that port in ballast, and when the Life-boat reached her it was found that the crew had the boats provisioned ready to leave her. The boat remained in close attendance on the steamer until 6 P.M., but as she did not get oft* on that tide the boat returned ashore, and went back again on the flood tide. She then ran wire hawsers to tugs, which had arrived upon the scene, and by this means the vessel was suc- cessfully refloated..