Coxswain Sydney Page, of Southend-on-Sea, has won the thanks of the Institution on vellum for rescuing the crew of a yacht which had gone aground on a sandbank in the Thames estuary in a gale. The night was very dark, with mist; the tide was low; and the life-boat herself went aground. While she was rolling heavily o» a sandbank, with the seas breaking over her all the time, her crew threw a line aboard the yacht, rigged the breeches buoy, and hauled the eight men of the crew through the surf. As the tide rose the life-boat refloated.