Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.55 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, a message came from the Warden Point Look-out that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles off Shoeburyness.

At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was launched in a very rough sea with a westerly gale blowing. She found the yacht Pinta, of Gillingham, a quarter of a mile north of West Shoebury Buoy. She had lost her rudder, shipped a lot of water, and her crew of two were exhausted.

After they had been rescued, two life- boatmen were put aboard the Pinta, which was then baled out and takenin tow. They reached Southend at 11,5.-—Property Salvage Case..