Selsey, Sussex.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 9th April the coastguard reported that a motor boat appeared to have broken down two miles S.E. of the coastguard look-out and was drifting west. She was not making signals of distress. At 5.47 P.M. she was still drifting, and the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched to her help. A strong E.

breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea.

The life-boat picked her up about one mile S.S.E. of Nab Tower, and found that she was the motor yacht Roma, bound with a crew of two from Southampton to Chelsea. She took her in tow to Portsmouth, which was reached at about 10.30 P.M. The life-boat stayed at Portsmouth overnight, and arrived back at her station at 8.30 A.M.

on the 10th. A gift of £15 for the lifeboat crew was received from the owners, the Chelsea Yacht and Boat Company. The yacht continued her voyage, but two days later was again in distress, as described below.—Rewards, £16 10*..