WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — A message having been received by telephone from the Gunfleet light-house on the 7th February, the crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company were summoned, and at 3.45 A.M. the boat was launched. She proceeded through a rough sea in the direction of the S.W.

part of the Gunfleet Sand, but found it impossible' to cross owing to a lack of water; she therefore had to run down five miles, succeeded in getting across, and was picked up by a passing steamer which towed her opposite the stranded vesseL She was the ketch Autumn, of Hull, bound from Sunderland for Shad well, with patent fuel, and had a crew of four men. The Life-boat men were engaged by the captain to get the vessel afloat, and they succeeded in doing so and proceeded towards Harwich. A strong wind and tide were encountered and on reaching the West Bocks H.M. torpedo-destroyer Desperate, kindly offered assistance; her offer was gratefully accepted, and she towed the vessel, which was leaking, and the Lifeboat to Harwich..