Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a local yacht club told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was in distress near the club's slipway at Westcliff. At 3.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched. The sea was very rough, there was a fresh south-westerly gale, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the yacht Ocean Break- er. She had two anchors down and her engine was driving full ahead, but she was dragging. The life-boat an- chored, veered down to her, took her in tow and returned to her station, arriving at 4.30. It was reported that the seas at Southend-on-Sea were the roughest within memory. Property Salvage Case..