At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to haul her pots, which were about eight miles to the north. The sea and weather were bad and gradually got worse. The life-boat coxswain was on watch, and at 5.35 P.M. the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched to look for the B. S. Colling. A north gale was then blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The brother of the owner of the B. S. Colling had just before put out to search in another coble, but the life-boat overhauled her about two and a half miles north, and, continuing on that course, met the B. S. Colling about six miles north in a very heavy sea. Life-belts were passed to her crew of three and the life-boat, in company with the second coble, escorted her back to harbour.

The life-boat returned to her station at 7.40 P.M.—Rewards, £20..