Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.1 on the evening of the 6th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning flares near the No. 5 Sea Reach buoy. At 9.25 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Sen-ice No. 30) was launched. There was a slight sea, a light north-westerly breeze was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the yacht African Queen, which had a crew of four, with her engine broken down.

She took the four people on board and towed the African Queen to Southend- on-Sea, arriving there at 10.45.— Rewards to the crew, £8; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 18*..