Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the llth April the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat three miles S.W. by W. of Shoreham Harbour was burning flares. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and squalls of rain and snow. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 5.25 P.M., and found the motor yacht Roma in distress with a broken engine shaft.

Her crew of two were suffering greatly from cold, and had been burning clothes as distress signals. The lifeboat towed the Roma in to Shoreham Harbour, and returned to her station at 6.40 P.M.—Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..