Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1952, a resident at Leigh-on-Sea reported a yacht run ashore off Leigh, with her mainsail gone and seas washing right over her. A rough sea was running, with a strong south-south-west wind.

The life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was launched at 2.50, and found the yacht Passat, of London, with two men and a woman on board, one and a half miles east of Chatman Head Lighthouse. They were res- cued and given hot drinks. One of the life-boatmen boarded the yacht, and made fast a rope, and the life-boat towed her to Southend reaching her station again at 4.20.—Property Sal- vage Case..