OCTOBER 28TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.50 in the morning, the naval authorities at Chatham telephoned the coxswain that the S.S. Moorwood had struck a wreck and was going to beach on the South- East Maplin Sands. She was a London steamer, with a crew of eighteen, bound, laden with coal, from the Tyne to the Thames.

A strong southerly wind was blowing, the sea rough. The motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched at 3.30 and one and a half hours later found the steamer ashore. She had been holed by the wreck.

The life-boat stood by. About noon the life-boat laid out her own kedge anchor, and this held the steamer until a tug could get hold of her. With the aid of the anchor and the tug, the Moorwood refloated at five o’clock. She then anchored. With a hole in her and with the rough sea, she would not attempt to go up the Thames that night. The life-boat remained with her until seven o’clock next morning, when she went up the Thames to London under her own power.

The life-boat reached her station again at nine that morning. - Property salvage case..