Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1954, the coastguard reported that two men in a rowing boat two miles east of the pier were waving a white rag on an oar. At 11.23 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Raring was launched, with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. A.

Perry, on board. There was a moder- ate swell, a fresh west-north-west breeze was blowing, and it was two and a quarter hours after high water. The life-boat found that the two men, who had been on a fishing trip, had lost an oar, and that their anchor would not hold. They were cold and wet. The life-boatmen rescued them, gave them rum, and towed their boat to the pier.

After the men had landed, another man was seen in the sea near the pier berthing arm. The life-boat put off again at once. She rescued him, and the honorary secretary revived him by artificial respiration. The life-boat then landed the man at twelve noon.

The men in the rowing boat made donations to the funds of the Institu- tion.—Rewards, £10 5,9. 9d..