Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned. The S.S. Leo had wirelessed that she had seen a small sailing yacht near No.

6 Barrow Buoy which seemed to need help. So at 1.11 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched. The sea was smooth with a light north-north- west breeze blowing. She found the yacht Spray, with five boys in her, in tow of a motor vessel, and took the boys on board, towing the Spray to Clacton. She reached her station again at 5.30 that evening. The boys had escaped from a Borstal Institu- tion.—Rewards, £12 12*. 9d..