SEPTEMBER 14TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 5.55 in the evening a message was received from a call-box at Westcliff that men could be seen clinging to the mast of a yacht which had sunk, close to the Loway Buoy. A strong squally south-south-west wind was blowing, and the sea was rough. At 6.30 the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched by the coxswain, two of the pier staff and the motor-mechanic.

As the life-boat was leaving, the regular crew arrived. She went alongside the pier and took them on board. In doing it she damaged her starboard bow. She found the yacht Alexandra, of Whitstable. Two men were clinging to the mast, only a few feet above the water. They were being badly knocked about by the heavy seas and were exhausted.

The life-boat rescued them, took them to Southend, and returned to her station at 7.5.

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