Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 18th July the coastguard reported a small steamer in distress about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from Selsey look-out. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 10 A.M., but found that the steamer had drifted into Chichester harbour. She was seen by two men on Hayling Island who put out in a motor boat and found her to be the steam yacht Livonia. Before the motor boat reached her the owner of the yacht, his wife and the five members of his crew had taken to their dinghy but the engine would not start and she drifted into broken water.

There the two men in the motor boat rescued them in an exhausted condition, at considerable risk to themselves.

One and a half miles from the Nab Tower the life-boat found the yacht Bon Espoir, of St. Briene, France, in distress with a broken main boom.

Her crew of two were taken on board, two life-boatmen were placed in the yacht, and the life-boat towed her to Selsey. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.30 P.M.—Rewards, lifeboat,lifeboat, £8 2s. 6d.; motor boat, £2; also 3s. for fuel used..