Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—-At 1.45 P.M. on the 23rd October, 1939, the signal station reported that a vessel was ashore on the Shoebury Sands.

The weather was calm, and the sea smooth. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched, and found the s.s. Copeland, of Glasgow, a vessel of 1,500 tons, aground. The life-boat stood by until she refloated and then returned to her station at 9.30 P.M.—Rewards, £28..