Shorebam Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.4 P.M. on the llth July the coastguard reported that a boat was in distress four and a half miles E.S.E. of Shoreham Harbour. A moderate S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 1.27 P.M., and found the yacht Merle and the motor launch Fire Fly, both belonging to Shoreham. There was one man in each boat. The launch had had the yacht in tow, but had broken her propeller. The life-boat towed both the boats into Shoreham, and returned to her station at 3.20 P.M.

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