AT 8.15 on the morning of 8th November last, the Motor Life-boat on the Humber was launched in a strong breeze, with a rough sea in answer to signals of distress, and after travelling for two hours at full speed found a steamtrawler, the Bessie, of Grimsby. The trawler's boiler had burst, killing one man and injuring another. The engineroom was half full of water, and the vessel damaged in other ways, but the skipper hoped to save her. The Lifeboat took the injured man on board and at 12.30 landed him at Grimsby. She then returned to the trawler, which had by this time been taken in tow and stood by her until she was safe in the Humber.

It was three o'clock on the following morning before the Life-boat returned to her Station.

On the morning of 4th January, when a gale was blowing, the Rosslare Harbour Motor Life-boat took out a doctor to the steamer Lady Gertrude Cochrane, which was lying a mile off the pier, to attend to the skipper, who had been taken ill. The Life-boat then brought the sick man ashore, where a car was waiting to convey him to the hospital.