Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th of December, 1955, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the life-boat coxswain had reported that a yacht was driving towards the sea wall east of the life-boat station. The coxswain hailed her, and her crew of three said their engine had broken down. At 6.40 the life-boat Edian Courtauld put out. The sea was moderate, there was a light south- westerly breeze, and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the 4-ton auxiliary yacht Alexena three hundred yards from the life-boat station. The yachtsmen were exhausted. The life- boat towed the Alexena to Harwich and reached her station again at 11.42.

—Rewards to the crew, £18 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l 13*..