JANUARY 19TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.48 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a sailing barge flying a signal.

A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell and squalls of snow. The motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 3.30 and found the barge Thalatta, of Harwich, half a mile north-east of South Buxey Buoy. Her sails were torn, her steering gear out of order, and she was leaking.

She had a crew of three on board and a cargo of wheat. The master asked that the life-boat should stand by, hoping the weather would moderate. At the next high water the weather was still very bad, and the life-boat remained until the following high water when, at one in the afternoon on the 20th, she took the barge in tow for Brightlingsea, which they reached at 5 o’clock.

The life-boat reached her station again at 7 in the evening. - Property salvage case..