Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht anchored two miles north-east of the Nore Towers had asked for a tow. At 7.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched in a very rough sea with a south-south-west gale blowing. She found the yacht Tinker, of Upnor, with two women and a man on board, driv- ing towards the Maplin Sands. The life-boat rescued the three people and gave them hot drinks, and two life- boatmen boarded the yacht. The life-boat then towed the yacht to Queenborough and landed the rescued at Southeud at 11.50. The father of one of the women made a donation to the funds of the Institution.—Pro- perty Salvage Case..