On the evening of the 20th April the coxswain received a message from the pier head that flares were burning in the Swatch- way, and the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) put out at 10.52 P.M. A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat found the small steamer Penton, of Newcastle, at anchor. Her master said that his engineer had dropped dead. Two life-boatmen went on board and then the master and the body of the engineer were taken on board the life-boat, which returned to Southend. After the master had re- ported the matter to the police the life- boat took him back and took off the two life-boatmen who had been left on the steamer, returning to her station at 2.35 A.M. on the 21st.—Rewards, £11 16s..