Selsey, Sussex.—On the evening of the 22nd April, 1939, the yacht Brionie ran aground two miles W.S.W.

of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The yacht's distress was reported by the coastguard and the Selsey motor lifeboat Canadian Pacific was launched at 7.50 P.M. Seeing that she would have to make a long detour owing to the state of the tide, four men who had answered the maroon but were not needed in the life-boat's crew, put offin a dinghy with an outboard motor.

They made for the Brionie and when about a quarter of a mile from the wreck they picked up a dinghy with the yacht's crew on board. They towed the dinghy to the life-boat station. The life-boat reached the yacht but found no one on board and returned ashore at 10.20 P.M.—Rewards, Life-boat £11 15*., Shoreboat £2 10*. and 3s. for fuel used..