Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.45 on the morning of the 3rd of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen four miles south-south-east of the look- out. At 2.10 the life-boat Edian Cour- tauld put out in a slight sea with a light east-north-easterly wind blowing and a flood tide. She found the auxiliary barge Ethel of Harwich, with a crew oftwo, two miles north-east of Gunfleet light. The Ethel had damaged her rudder and emergency repairs had to be made by the life-boat motor mechanics before she could be taken in tow to Harwich. The life-boat reached her station at 7.40. Property salvage case.