Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.0 in the afternoon, on the 29th of November, 1950, the pier-master reported that a vessel was pounding against the pier, damaging it. At 4.25 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched in a rough sea with a strong north-westerly breeze blowing. She found the motor vessel Cub-H, of Hull, with a crew of two, on the west side of the pier; she was in a dangerous position, with her steering gear broken.

Two life-boatmen therefore boarded her and, making fast a tow rope, towed the Cub-H to the loading pier and berthed her there. She reached her station again at 6.0.—Property Salvage Case..