FEBRUARY 20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At five in the evening the life-boat coxswain received a message from the piermaster that a barge with all her sails blown away was driving towards the pier. A westnorth- west gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched at 5.15 and a quarter of an hour later met the sailing barge Bassildon, of London, half a mile west of the pier. With great difficulty she went alongside her, but found no one in her.

Three life-boatmen then boarded the barge and the life-boat towed her to a safe anchorage.

She reached her station again at 6.45.

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