MAY 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 6.30 P.M. the coxswain was warned for service by the naval control as two ships had been attacked and were in distress. The sea was calm, with no wind.At 6.45 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched, and near the Nore Light-vessel, found the S.S. Dixcove, of Liverpool, in tow of two tugs.

One of the tugs had on board fifty survivors from S.S. Winkfield, of Glasgow. She transferred them to the life-boat. Going east for two miles, the life-boat then took on board four more survivors from a Dutch naval vessel. Two of them were badly wounded, and another was suffering from shock.

The life-boat landed the fifty-four men at the naval base and returned to her station at 8.30 P.M. - Rewards, £7 1s..