Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.56 on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in distress off the Shivering Sands towers. At 5.30 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No.

30) was launched in a rough sea.

There was a fresh south-westerly gale with squally showers, and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat came up with the yacht Sandling, with five people on board, and towed her back to her station, arriving at 10.35.—Property Salvage Case..