Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 6.0 on the evening of the 17th of March, 1951, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned that the S.S. Sodality, of London, four and a half miles north east of Barrow Deep, had a sick man on board. She had asked for the life-boat; so, at 6.20 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings, in a moderate sea with a slight south-south-west breeze. She landed the man at Walton pier, wherea doctor was waiting and reached her station again at 9.30 that night.— Rewards, £14 16*. 6d..