Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—-At 5.25 on the evening of the 18th of November, 1954, the coastguard reported that the tanker Caprella, of Panama, had wire- lessed that she had a sick man on board and needed a doctor. She was at anchor three and a half miles east- south-east of the life-boat station.

At six o'clock the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched with a doctor on board. The sea was calm, there was a light westerly breeze, and it was high water. The life-boat put the doctor aboard and after he had made the patient com- fortable re-embarked him and took him back to Southend, arriving at 8.15.—Rewards, £12 7s..