At about 8.30 A.M. on the 29th December a message was received that a barge v?as in very urgent need of assistance about two and a half miles E N.E. of the Gunfleet Lighthouse. The Motor Life- boat James Stevens No. 14 at once proceeded to sea, and when about half- way across the " Wallett" a barge was noticed driving before the wind. She proved to be the O.L.S., of London, but no one was on board. The Life-boat got alongside and the crew succeeded in saving the barge, which was taken to Harwich. It subsequently proved that the vessel had broken away from her moorings..