Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 1.25 in the morning of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the pilot cutter Penlee had reported that she had picked up the crew of four- teen of the S.S. Rojo, of Oslo, which had collided with another ship near the Sunk Lightvessel. The sea was rough and a fresh wind was blowing from the south-west. The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched at five minutes past two and went to the Penlee. She took aboard half the crew of the Rojo and then made for the Rojo herself. The Rojo was on Shipwash Sands, slightly waterlogged, and she had a heavy list to starboard, but she was not so badly damaged as her master had thought when he abandoned her. The life-boat put half the crew on board her and stood by while the men raised steam.

She then brought the remainder of the crew from the pilot cutter and at the master's request escorted the Rojo into Harwich, where she was beached. The E.M.E.D. returned to her station at half past one that afternoon.—Rewards, £29 5s..