Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a cabin cruiser was showing distress signals a mile and a half west of Southend pier. At 4.50 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a rough sea. There was a south-westerly wind of nearly gale force and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Marjon Two of London ashore with six people on board. After she refloated the life- boat towed her to Southend, arriving at 8.15. Property salvage case..