Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 20th of February, 1959, the life-boathouse attendant told the coxswain that the s.s. City of Perth of London, which was south of Shoe- bury buoy, had asked for the life-boat to land a sick man. At 1.30 the life- boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a moderate sea, with a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing and an ebb tide. She took the man on board and landed him at three o'clock at Southend, where he was taken to hospital with acute appendicitisRewards to the crew, £7 10s. ; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £3 5s..