On the evening of the 21st May the look-out reported that a small cutter-rigged yacht was ashore, about one mile south of the station, on Caister Shoal. A squally W. wind was blowing and the sea was smooth.

The yacht was not in immediate danger, but she was ashore at a very dangerous point, and it was thought that she might capsize on the ebbing tide. The pulling and sailing life-boat Charles Burton was launched at 8.30 P.M. and found the yacht to be the Gariad, with a woman and two men on board. She stood by until the yacht refloated and went on her way, and then returned to her station, which was reached at 11 P.M.—Rewards, £29 Us..