Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 2nd of June, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the pilot cutter Penlee had reported a small yacht in distress about two miles north-east of Sunk Head Tower. At 9.5 the life-boat E.M.E.D. left her moorings. The sea was very rough, with a strong west-south-west wind blowing. The life-boat found that the Penlee had taken the sailing yacht Nola, of Harwich, in tow to prevent her drifting on the Shipwash Sands.

They were now two miles south-west of the Sunk Lightvessel. The life- boat took over the tow, towed the yacht to the lee of the Gunfleet Sands, put two life-boatmen on board and took off the yacht's crew of two men.

They were nearly exhausted. The life-boatmen then pumped her out and the life-boat towed her to Walton River, arriving at one o'clock in the afternoon. She then returned to her station which she reached at three o'clock. At 5.15 that evening the life-boat left her moorings again, towing her boarding boat to Walton river for survey, and when she was off High Hill Sands Buoy she saw two boys in a 10-feet outboard dinghy, drifting seawards. Their engine had broken down. The life-boat rescued them and towed the dinghy to moor- ings in the river. The life-boat then took the boarding boat to a slipway and returned to her station arriving at 6.30.—Rewards, 1st service, £20 15s.; 2nd service, £8 10s..