DECEMBER 23RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At four in the morning the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard reported a message received from the S.S. Parkeston that a barge was in distress on Platters Ground.

A fresh south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched at five o’clock and, helped by the train ferry searchlight, found the barge Glencoe, of Rochester, laden with potash. Her sprit band had carried away and her loosened wire stays dangerously swept her deck, making it impossible for her crew of two to control her. The life-boat towed her to Ipswich and arrived back at her station at 3.30 that afternoon. - Property salvage case..