Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of October, 1952, the Red Sand Forts reported that a yacht had stranded on the Forts' steel structure and that two boys had been taken off her. The Forts asked if the life-boat would land the boys, and at 9.25 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was launched. The sea was choppy, with a fresh westerly breeze blowing.

The life-boat found that the boys had taken the yacht Wyvern from Shoe- buryness. She took them on board and towed the yacht to Southend pier, where the boys were handed over to the police at 12.5.—Property Salvage Case..