A GIFT of ten shillings has come from a working man at Southend-on-Sea in gratitude for the rescue of three men by the Southend motor life-boat Greater London. He had never seen the three men before, but had let them have his boat to go fishing.

He wrote: " I feel that their thanks as well as mine are due to the Life-boat Institution. I am only a working man, with a family to keep, so I cannot afford much help in the way it deserves. I am sorry I cannot make it much more.".