The man who was lost was Benjamin Clark, the bowman and signalman.

He had served in the life-boat for 25 years, and his father and brother had each been coxswain. His widow has been pensioned by the Institution as if her husband had been a sailor, soldier, or airman killed in action. The trawler's bow had driven two feet deep into the life-boat and had cut her open from deck to bilge keel. The hole was five feet from top to bottom and two and a half feet across at the top. In this state the life-boat carried on for an hour and a half, and then came back to harbour..