Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.39 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Sunk Lightvesset had reported what it thought to be a flare about two miles south-south-east of the lightvessel. At 12.3 next morn- ing the life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched in a moderate sea with a moderate westerly breeze blowing. The light-ves- sel, reporting that a S.O.S. signal was being made, wirelessed the position as three to three and a half miles to her east. Here the life-boat found the local auxiliary yacht Mary Ellen. She was on a cruise to Holland, with a crew of four, but had gone aground, and lost some rigging and her mast. The life- boatmen cleared the mast, towed her in, and reached their station again, at ten. The owner thanked the life- boatmen.—Property Salvage Case..