Shortly after midnight on the 21st June, rockets were observed from a vessel about two miles to the S.W. of Selsey Bill, and the Life-boat Lucy Newbon was promptly launched.

She found the s.s. Kenora, of Toronto —a large vessel of nineteen hundred tons gross—had run aground whilst bound to London with a cargo of timber. Two of the Life-boatmen went on board the vessel and the Life-boat stood by in order to render help if necessary, but the vessel floated clear at about 3 A.M.

and the Life-boat was able to return to her station. Fortunately the weather was fine at the time, with a moderate S.E. breeze and a slight sea..