Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.43 on the afternoon of the 18th of June 1954, a message was received from the coastguard that a tanker had reported a yacht apparently broken down off Nore Towers. At 4.5 the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. The sea was moderate, a moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, and the tide was one hour ebb. The life-boat found the speed boat Blue Peter, of Margate, three miles east of the Towers, with two men on board. Sea water had put her engine out of action, and a life-boatman boarded her. The life- boatmen then rescued the men, gave them rum and towed their boat to Southend, arriving at 6.15.—Property Salvage Case..