DRIFTING ON TO THE NORE SANDS Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.35 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht was drifting on to the Nore Sands.

The motor life-boat Milburn, on tem- porary duty at the station, was launched at 6.10. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The life- boat found the ex-motor launch Prince Siki, off East Nore Buoy, with no one on board* Three life-boatmen boarded her, a tow-rope was passed, and the life-boat towed her to Sheerness, arriving back at her station at 7.30 that evening.—Property Salvage Case..