Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 27th January, the barge T.T.H., of London, bound from Brightlingsea for Chatham with a load of shingle, got into difficulties. She lost her rudder and started a bad leak. A moderate northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and snow squalls. The barge made distress signals, and the Clacton motor life-boat Edward Z.

Dresden was launched at 5.15 A.M.

She found the barge about three quarters of a mile from Heap's buoy in the West Swin. Her crew were exhausted from working the pumps.

Some life-boatmen were put on board and the life-boat hung astern until daybreak. At the request of the barge's skipper the life-boat then put back to Clacton to get a tug, but there was not one available. The Walton motor life-boat E.M.E.D. put out at 7 A.M., and together the two life-boats towed the barge into the safety of the river Colne. The Clacton boat returned to her station at 5.30 P.M. and the Walton boat at 6 P.M.—Property Salvage Case..