R.A.F. DESERTERS RESCUED Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.35 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard at Warden Point reported a small yacht, with her engine broken down, drifting near forts on the Shivering Sands, and the motor life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched at 4.55 in a strong south-west wind, with a rough sea. On reaching Shivering Sands the life-boat found that the yacht—the Bellbo, of Upnor—had fouled the piles of the forts, and the men on the forts had rescued the two men in the yacht, who were deserters from the R.A.F. The yacht was full of water and had to be aban- doned, but the life-boat brought the two airmen ashore, handed them over to the police and returned to her station at 10 o'clock.—Rewards, £16 2s.