NOV. 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.

At 11.33 A.M. a barge was flying distress signals near the Jenkin Buoy. A westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 11.55 A.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched and found the barge Five Sisters, but her skipper refused to leave her. The life-boat stood by for some time and then, as the weather moderated, returned to her station at 1.30 P.M. She saw another barge, the Scotsman, making heavy weather but her crew would not leave her. - Rewards, £8 9s..