Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.40 in the evening, on the 26th of November, 1950, the pier head signal station re- ported a message from the Walton-on- Naze coastguard. The S.S. City of Bristol, of Glasgow, had been in collision with the S.S. Selnes, of Oslo, south of the West Harrow Buoy. At 6.15 the life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was launched in a calm sea, with fog.

She found the Selnes, loaded with paper and with a crew of twenty-one, partly Hooded and her decks awash. The coxswain went aboard and spoke to the master; and at his request the life-boat stood by all night. Meanwhile, a tug arrived and beached the Seines on West Barrow Sands; but the life-boat stayed with her. In the morning the fog cleared; and about four o'clock in the afternoon the master said that a salvage tug was expected. The ser- vices of the life-boat would no longer be required. The master therefore thanked the life-boat's crew, and she returned to her station, arriving at 6.45 that night —after more than twenty-four hours at sea.—Rewards, £64 15*..