APRIL 10TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.45 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities that a naval patrol boat had picked up a barge, which had been abandoned, and asked that the life-boat should bring it in. A light easterly breeze was blowing and there was a slight sea. At 11.50 A.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched and took over the barge, Rowland, of London. She was waterlogged and all her pumps were choked. The life-boatmen baled her out with buckets, and towed her inshore.

The life-boat returned to her station at 2.30 P.M. - Property salvage case..