During a severe gale, with the wind reaching seventy miles an hour, the motor life- boat Frederick H. Pilley was launched at 2.30 A.M. on the 19th October, informa- tion having been received from the Wyre light-keepers that a vessel was ashore on North Wharf. She was found to be the steam trawler Sarba, of Fleetwood, inward bound from fishing, with a crew of eleven on board.

Before the life-boat reached her she had been washed off the North Wharf by the exceptionally heavy broken seas, and carried into the Wyre Channel entrance. Later she went ashore on the Pilling Sands. There the life-boat stood by until high water, when the trawler refloated, and the life-boat escorted her into harbour, arriving at 4.30 A.M.—Rewards, £18 4-s..