Walton and Frinlon, Essex.—Early on the afternoon of the 19th April, 1938, the motor life-boat E.M.E.D., just before entering the Come estuary on passage to Rowhedge, for her annual overhaul, saw a barge in difficulties about a mile and a half south of Come Bar Buoy. A strong, squally N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The barge was the Gannet, of London, with a crew of two, and she was bound for Bradwell with a cargo of pig food.

She had carried away her sprit. The life-boat towed her to a safe anchorage in Bradwell Creek, and then went on to Rowhedge, where she arrived at 4.40 P.M.—Property Salvage Case..