Walton and Frinton, Essex.- At 10.25 P.M., on the 14th June, 1939, a message was received from the Felixstowe eoastguard, through the Walton-on- Naze coastguard, that a vessel was in distress one mile east of the Cork Lightvessel.

A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The reserve motor lifeboat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 10.50 P.M.

She found the motor vessel Kentish Hoy, of Chatham, with a crew of three, laden with 150 tons of sugar, on passage from Great Yarmouth to Chatham.

Her engine had broken down. She was being swept by heavy seas. The life-boat waited for the seas to ease.

She then towed the Kentish Hoy to Harwich Harbour arriving at 6.30 A.M.

the next morning. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.30 A.M.— Property Salvage Case..