JUNE 14TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 10.25 P . M . a message was received from the Felixstowe coastguard, through the Walton-on-Naze coastguard, that a vessel was in distress one mile east of the Cork Light-vessel. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 10.50 P.M. She found the motor vessel Kentish Hoy, of Chatham, with a crew of three, laden with 150 tons of sugar, on passage from Great Yarmouth to Chatham.

Her engine had broken down. She was being swept by heavy seas. The life-boat waited for the seas to ease. She then towed the Kentish Hoy into Harwich Harbour arriving at 6.30 A.M. the next morning. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.30A.M. - Property salvage case.