Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.24 on the evening of the 9th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the owner of the local motor pleasure boat Nemo II had reported that his boat had broken from her moorings and was drifting towards the shore to the east of the pier. At 9.30 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched in a rough sea. A southerly gale was blowing and the tide was two hours ebb. She found that the Nemo II had been washed ashore and, as the weather would not allow the life-boat to be re-housed, she made for Brightlingsea, arriving at eleven o'clock that night.

At 4.10 the next morning she left Brightlingsea, refloated the Nemo II and then escorted her to Brightlingsea, which was reached again at 7.45.

The life-boat remained there until the weather moderated and was taken back to her station on the llth.— Property Salvage Case..