Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 1.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small yacht had capsized two OT three miles out, south of the Medusa Buoy, and the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. left her moorings at 2.10 in a west-south-west breeze, with a moderately rough sea. She found the yacht Oyster Catcher, of Burnham-on- Crouch, with a man clinging to her.

With difficulty the life-boatmen got him on board, and he said that his com- panion had been swept away. After landing him the life-boat went out again but could not find the missing man. She then tried to salve the yacht but did not succeed.—Rewards, £12 11s.

Letters of thanks were received from the parents of the rescued man and the man lost..