Walton and Frinton, Essex.— About 12.30 in the afternoon, on the 2nd of September, 1950, the Walton-on-the- Naze Coastguard telephoned that the crew of a rowing dinghy seemed to be in difficulties and drifting out to sea.

Before long this crew made a distress signal; and at 1.5 the life-boat E.M.E.D.

left her moorings in a very choppy sea with a fresh west-south-west breeze blowing. She found the dinghy, with three men and a boy, one and three- quarter miles south-east of the pier; rescued the crew and towed in the dinghy. She reached her station again at 1.45.—Rewards, £9 10,?..