Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.41 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the collier John Orwell Phillips of London that a member of her crew was in a coma and needed a doctor. At 10.8 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched with a doctor on board in a slight sea. There was a gentle easterly wind and it was low water. The life- boat put the doctor aboard the collier, but the man was dead. His body was transferred to the life-boat, the vessel's mate accompanying it, and landed at Southend. After the police had taken a statement from the mate he was returned to his vessel, and the life-boat reached her station at 11.50. Rewards to the crew, £5 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 18s..