Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 5.10 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the local motor boat Jill had broken from her moorings in Holland Gap with no one on board, and was in danger of being smashed up in a rough sea and moderate south-westerly gale.

Conditions were unsuitable for a shore- boat to reach her, and at 5.22 the life- boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched.

She towed the Jill to Brightlingsea and, as the weather was too bad for the life-boat to be re-housed, she remained there for the night and re- turned to her station the next morn- ing, arriving at 11.30.—Property Salvage Case..