Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 30th of January, 1948, the crew of three of the motor barge Arripay, of London, abandoned her in a rowing boat, during a south-westerly gale near the Swin Bell Buoy, with three feet of water in her engine-room. At 5.40 in the after- noon the coastguard reported red flares, and a few minvites later the motor life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched.

Helped by her flares the life-boat found the small boat near the No. 2 Wallet Buoy and rescued the three men. With the men and their boat, she arrived back at Clacton at eight o'clock.—Rewards, £12 10s. Qd..