Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. — Shortly after 10.30 P.M. on the 5th July the coastguard received a message from the Gunfleet lighthouse that the Barrow Deep light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The weather was fine, with a calm sea and a light southerly wind, and the tide was threequarter flood. At 11 P.M. the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. put off. She found on board the light-vessel the crew of four of the auxiliary yacht Una, of Brightlingsea.

The yacht had foundered at 8.15 P.M. about three miles N. by E. of the light-vessel, and her crew had taken to their boat and rowed to the lightvessel.

They were landed by the lifeboat.

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