STANDING BY A SWEDISH COAL SHIP Walton and Frinton, Essex.—-At 11.50 on the night of the 16th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the Sunk Lightship that a vessel was showing flares. A fresh west- south-west gale was blowing with a very rough sea. Owing to the heavy seas the crew had the greatest difficulty in boarding the motor life-boat, which was the Milburn, on temporary duty at the station, lying afloat. They left at 12.45 in the morning and at 2.30 found the Swedish motor vessel Ferjo, of Vestervik, with a cargo of coal, about three miles to the north-west of the Sunk Lightship. The Ferjo had been drifting with her engine broken down, and had lost one anchor, but another anchor was then holding. The life-boat stood by until daylight. By then the Ferjo had got her engine working again, the weather had im- proved, and the life-boat returned to her station which she reached at 8.30.— Rewards, £32 13s. 6d..