Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the North Foreland Radio reported a small yacht, the Diver, of Gillingham, anchored close to No. 1 Yantlett Buoy and in need of help. The motor life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was launched at 3.55. The sea was very rough and a southerly gale was blowing, with heavy rain. The life-boat found the yacht, with two men aboard, in tow of a landing craft a mile north-east of East Nore Buoy. At the request of the landing craft's captain the life-boat took over the tow, and as there was insufficient shelter at South- end she took the Diver to Sheerness.

There she found that one of the two men was seriously ill. It was then about half-past five. The other man, his brother, begged the life-boatmen to take the sick man up the Medway to his home near Gillingham. This they did. The life-boat arrived back at her station at a quarter to nine that evening.

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