Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of December, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary Secretary that red flares had been seen from the Shipwash lightvessel two miles to the north-west of the light- vessel's position. At 10.17 the no. 1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched in a rough sea. There was a fresh south-south-westerly breeze, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the motor barge Pepita, of Rochester, with a crew of four. Her engines had broken down. The tug Richard Lee Barber took the barge in tow, but as the tug made little headway and the weather was deteriorating, the cox- swain decided to stand by both vessels with the intention of escorting them into Harwich. At the Cork lightvessel the vessels were making satisfactory pro- gress, and the life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 9.37. Rewards to the crew, £35 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £32 3s. 6d..