Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.20 early on the morning of the 7th of November, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a rocket had been seen in the direction of Shellness Point, and at 2.55 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was launched. The sea was very rough with a strong north- westerly gale. The life-boat found the sailing barge Savoy, of Dover, with a crew of two, three-quarters of a mile south-east of Columbine Spit.

She was making heavy weather, and the life-boat stood by her until day- light. The skipper then said that he did not need the life-boat any more, and she returned to her station, arriv- ing at 10.20. The Savoy went on to Whitstable.—Rewards, £25 17s..