AUGUST 6TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 2.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a man adrift in a small dinghy. He had only one oar, and was rapidly being blown out to sea by a strong off-shore wind. At 2.30 the life-boat’s motor boarding boat was launched in a very choppy sea. Capt. W. J. Oxley, the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, went in the boat.

She found the dinghy three and a quarter miles east-south-east of the Walton-on-Naze coastguard station. The man was suffering from the wet and cold. The boarding boat took him on board, and, with the dinghy in tow, brought him to Walton. She returned to her station at 3.30. A letter of thanks and a donation were received from the father of the rescued man. - Rewards, £2 11s..