Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.17 early on the morning of the 6th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported that shouts for help had been heard from a boat off the holiday camp south-west of the pier. At 2.22 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. There was a slight swell and a light breeze, and it was high water. The life-boat found the 37-feet motor yacht White Heather, with the owner on board, bound for Ipswich. The yacht had sprung a leak, and the life-boat took her in tow. But the yacht made water very quickly, so the life-boat rescued the man, beached the yacht at St. Osyth, and reached her station again at 4.40.— Rewards to the crew, £13 7s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 19s..