MAY 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.20 in the afternoon the naval control reported the naval boat B a s i l George, with two men on board, ashore half a mile east of the pier, and asked that the life-boat should be launched. A very squally south-south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.40 and brought ashore the captain.

When she had landed him she was asked to go out again and take off the other man. This she did, returning to her station at 5.30. - Rewards, £5 2s..