WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.—One of the last Life-boat Services of the past year (1884) was that performed by The Honourable Artillery Company boat, which had only been stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Walton-on-the-Naze about two months previously. She was launched through a heavy surf, on the evening of Christmas Day, in reply to signals from the Sunk Lightship. She first made for the Light-vessel, a distance of ten miles, and ascertained the position of the wreck (which was found to be 8 or 9 miles off on the Long Sand) and then made for the spot. At daybreak the Life-boatmen were enabled, with some difficulty, to veer their boat down under the ship's jibboom, it being impossible to get nearer, and it was then discovered that the vessel was the Deitce Rickmers, of Bremerhaven, and that there were 25 persons on board.

By means of a rope from the end of jibboom they were all got into the boat, the captain being the last to leave. There were now 40 men in the Life-boat, as well as a large dog, which had also been rescued, and great risk was incurred in crossing the Long Sand, the sea being in a perfect ferment; happily, however, the boat acted splendidly, passed safely through all dangers, and arrived at her station on the evening of Boxing Day, after an absence of about 25 hours..