DECEMBER 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.50 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a motor fishing vessel near the Wallet Spit Buoy was flashing signals and might be in need of help, and the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched to investigate. She left at 5.50 in a light south-westerly wind, with a slight sea, and found the M.F.V.125, with her engine broken down. At the request of the naval authorities at Harwich, the lifeboat towed her to Brightlingsea. It was eleven o’clock before she was anchored there, and the life-boat remained at Brightlingsea for the night, returning to her station next morning. - Property salvage case..