Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 4th of March, 1953, the coastguard reported that two vessels had been in collision near Lower Hope Buoy and that one was beginning to sink. The life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched at 5.25 in a calm sea with a light north- westerly wind blowing, and fog. She found that the motor vessel Northum- brian Coast, of Middlesbrough, had been in collision with the Egyptian Prince, and that the Sylvian Coast had been standing by. In the meantime the Northumbrian Coast had been beached at Mucking Flats, but she was badly holed. Her engine-room, was. flooded, and it was thought that her crew would have to be taken off by the life-boat as the tide rose. How- ever, the life-boat crew got materials from the ship and succeeded in filling the hole. These repairs lasted until a tug arrived with pumps, and later it was possible to tow the vessel to higher ground. The captain thanked the life-boatmen for their help in saving the ship, and the life-boat arrived at Southend again at 4.30 in the morning.

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