Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At about 9.30 P.M. on the 31st October, 1937, the coastguard reported that a yacht sailing past the harbour mouth had burnt red flares. A fresh S.S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 9.50 P.M , and found the yacht Mystico, of Shoreham, with a man and a woman on board, about a mile east of the harbour. She was on a lee shore, only about fifty yards from land. Her rudder had carried away and her anchor was dragging. By skilful manoeuvring, in the shallow breaking water, with a strong ebb tide running, the coxswain got alongside the yacht and put one of his men on board.

The yacht's anchor was slipped and the life-boat towed her into the canal at Southwick. The Institution senta letter to the station expressing appreciation of the efficient way in which the service had been carried out.—Property Salvage Case..