Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About ten o'clock on the morning of the llth of January, 1953, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the Cork lightvessel had reported seeing a steamer two miles south-by-west of the lightvessel. Fog concealed her during the day, but at 8.45 it had cleared, and the lightvessel stated that the steamer was displaying signals meaning she was aground. It was becoming foggy again, but at 9.40 the life-boat E.M.E.D. left her moorings.

There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea, and she found the S.S. Campo Grande, of Cadiz, four and a half miles east-north-east of the coastguard station, with forty persons on board. She was hard and fast on the Cork Sands. The life-boat tried to refloat her but failed, and at five o'clock the next morning a tug arrived.

The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 12.2. About five in the afternoon the tug asked for the life-boat, and at 5.40 the E.M.E.D.

put out again. She helped in the refloating operations which, after several attempts, were successful the next morning. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 11.56 on the morning of the 13th.— Property Salvage Case..