On the 13th July the motor boat ex-Bacchus, while on passage from Burnham-on-Crouch to Southend-on-Sea, with a woman and two men aboard, ran out of petrol off West Shoebury buoy and began to drift helplessly. A moderate W. breeze was blowing with a moderate sea. One of the men managed to reach shore in a collapsible boat and reported the matter to the police, who informed the Life- boat Station, and the Motor Life-boat Greater London was launched at 11.30 P.M. She found the boat drifting off the Shoebury Sands, took her two occupants aboard and then towed the boat to Southend, which was reached at 12.15 A.M.—Rewards, £12 18»..