Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 12.30 A.M. on the 18th May the life-boat station received information from the pierhead that flares had been seenfrom the lower end of the Nore Sands.

The sea was rough, with a fresh wind blowing. The reserve motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 1 A.M. and found the motor yacht Evadne, of Glasgow, ashore, with a party of ten people on board. As the yacht was bumping badly, five women were taken off and landed at Southend pier.

Returning to the stranded yacht, the life-boat stood by until she refloated, but her engine would not work, so the life-boat towed her to a safe anchorage by the pier.—Property Salvage Case..