Shortly after 5.30 A.M. on the 23rd July, the Coxswain had his attention called to a schooner which since daybreak had shown signs of being unmanageable, and as a strong S.S.W.

gale was blowing with a heavy sea run- ning, the Life-boat William Wallis was launched. She found that the vessel was the schooner Marie Celine, of Truro, bound from Shoreham to Par, Cornwall, with a cargo of cement. Her sails had been blown away and she had also suffered damage to her spars. When the Life-boat reached the schooner the crew were engaged to salve her, and took the vessel and her crew of three hands in safety into Newhaven Harbour.

They arrived there shortly after noon, and as it was not possible to bring the boat back at that time, against wind and tide, the men returned to Brighton and proceeded by train early next morning to Newhaven to fetch the boat..