Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.6 on the evening of the 9th of March, 1954, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Kenrix, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had a sick man on board and needed a doctor. At 8.40 the life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No.

3 was launched, with a doctor on board, in a calm sea, with a light easterly breeze blowing. She came up with the Kenrix a mile east of Chapman Head. She put the doctor on board, waited while he treated the man, and then took him back to Southend, arriving at 9.53.—Rewards, £9 15s..