Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 in the morning of the 17th of November, 1948, the pier head coastguard reported that the S.S. Nordic Queen was ap- proaching Southend and wanted to land ten survivors whom she had picked up from the Dutch motor vessel Quo Vadis. The Quo Vadis had sunk about a mile west of Nore Tower, after strik- ing a wreck. The motor life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched at three o'clock in a light north-west breeze with a calm sea, met the Nordic Queen, took off the ten survivors and landed them on Southend Pier, returning to her station at 3.50.

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