Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1956, the coastguard reported that the tanker Tank Queen, of Oslo, had anchored off Southend in dense fog and needed a doctor. One of her deck boys was thought to have acute appendicitis. At noon the life-boat Greater London II, Civil Service No. 30 was launched, with a doctor and other medical helpers. She made for the tanker in a calm sea, with a light south-westerly breeze blowing, and came up with her one mile east of West Shoebury. She put the doctor aboard at 12.25. At 1.15 the doctor re- embarked in the life-boat with the patient, who was landed at Southend at 1.40. The boy's life was saved.—- Rewards to the crew, £8 15*.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 ISs..