Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.20 in the evening, on the 5th of May, 1950, the Cementation Company said that aboat was in danger of drifting out to sea with a large section of the boom off Shoeburyness. It had three of their men aboard, who were engaged in dis- mantling the boom. At 5.40 the life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was launched in a choppy sea with a fresh northerly breeze blowing. She found the boat two and a half miles off Shoeburyness. It was too large for the men to control, so the life-boat took them off and towed the boat to Southend pier. She reached her station again at 6.35.—-Rewards, £8 11s..