Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.32 on the morning of the 20th of February, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Denise Germaine, of Zee- brugge, had been wrecked on the Long Sandbank, west-by-north of the Barrow Deep lightvessel. Two of her crew hadbeen picked up by a passing vessel, but two others were missing. At 11.50 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched in a slight swell, with a light breeze blowing and an ebbing tide.

She searched in company with a heli- copter, but found only two small boats drifting- two miles north of North Knock Buoy. One of them was waterlogged, but she towed the other one to her station, which she reached at 8.45.

On the 24th Lloyd's agent at Col- chester asked if the life-boat would take out a surveyor to view the wreck as no other boat could be obtained. Weather conditions were not suitable until the 27th, and at 5.50 that morning the life- boat embarked Lloyd's agent and the surveyor and made for the position.

There was a moderate swell and a moderate east-north-east breeze. No trace of the Denise Germaine was seen.

The life-boat reached her station again at 11.15.—Rewards: 1st service, £25 4s. 9d.; 2nd service, £23 17*. The rewards for the second service were refunded to the Institution by Lloyd's Agency..