Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.15 in the morning on the llth of December, 1949, the coastguard reported that a lighter was drifting in the fairway near the east Ouze buoy. At 7.45 the life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was launched. In a rough sea, with a strong northerly breeze blowing, she found the lighter Mediator, of London, two miles west-south-west of Shivering forts, with no-one on board. The life- boat towed her to Southend, anchored her and arrived back at her station at 12.20 that afternoon.—Property Sal- vage Case..