Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the evening of the 8th December the coastguard reported that the Barrow Deep lightvessel was firing signals of distress as flares had been seen in a south-westerly direction. The wind was light and the sea smooth, but there was a thick fog.

The motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 7.40 P.M., and was directed by the light-vessel to a position about two miles S. by W. There she found the motor vessel Conida, of London, at anchor .in about twelve feet of water. The Conida had been aground, and had afterwards lost her propeller. As she drew eleven feet and there were still two hours to ebb tide, the life-boat towed her into deeper water. The life-boat then went to the Trinity steamer Strathearn, which was lying about four miles off, and asked her to send out a wireless message for a tug. She returned to the Conida, stood by her until a tug from Harwich had taken her in tow, and got back to her station at 4 A.M. on the 9th.—Property Salvage Case..