Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At about 11 A.M.

on the 30th September, 1938, the coastguard reported a motor launch broken down two and a half miles E.N.E. of Sizewell. About half an hour later she hoisted a signal of distress, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 11.40A.M. A moderate south-easterly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat found the motor cruiser Black Bess, of Oulton Broad, with one man on board, at anchor. Her engines had broken down and the man asked for help.

Two life-boatmen were put on board and the life-boat towed the Black Bess to Harwich. She returned to her station at 8.20 P.M.—Property Salvage Case..