Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.6 in the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy with children on board was adrift one mile off Jaywick, and the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at half-past four in a smooth sea and, a light north-westerly wind.

On- reaching Jaywick she found that the dinghy had already been brought in by a rowing boat, but on her way back she saw a canvas canoe in diffi- culties, picked up both the crew of two men and the canoe, and landed them at Clacton at 5.50.—Rewards, £9..