Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.45 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1959, a message was received that a vessel, which had been in a collision, was sinking near Little Nore Sands. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 8.10.

The sea was calm, with a light easterly breeze blowing, but there was thick fog.

It was high water. The life-boat found the s.s. Ramso of Mariehamn, Finland, in Sheerness anchorage being towed by two tugs. Her bow had been badly damaged and her fore-hold was flooded.

The life-boat escorted her until she was safely beached and then returned to her station, arriving at noon. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 10s..