Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 early on the morning of the 7th of March, 1953, the Southend piermaster reported that the Southend Corpora- tion's dredger Prittlewell was stranded on a sandbank at Crowstone, Westcliff, with a crew of seven. At three o'clock the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched in a calm sea with a west-north-west breeze blowing, and put a rope aboard the dredger. She towed her clear and slipped the rope, and the Prittlewell then made for her berth under her own power. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 4.10. The Corporation made a donation to the funds of the Institution.—Rewards, £7 15-y..