DECEMBER 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 10.55 in the morning a message was received from the naval control for food to be taken to the drifter Ocean Lover, which had been lying a mile east of the boom for four days owing to thick fog. At 11.15 the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, was launched and went first to the vessel guarding the boom. This vessel was also found to be short of food. Some of the bread for the Ocean Lover was given her, and in its place a box of biscuits from the life-boat’s own store was given to the Ocean Lover. The life-boat also took out the captain of the American vessel Sun Yat Sen, which was lying a mile above the boom, and the commander of H.M.C.S. Calgary, which was lying at Sheerness. - Rewards, £11 5s..