Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized on the south side of the boom defence. At 4.20 the life-boat Greater London, II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a moderate sea, with a moderate easterly wind blowing and an ebb tide. The life-boat made for the position and found a police launch, whose crew informed the coxswain that the yacht's crew had been taken ashore.

The life-boat towed the capsized yacht to Sheerness and reached her station at 7.50. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £3 15s..