Selsey, Sussex.—At half past eight on the night of the 14th of December, 1949, the coastguard gave information that the Owers light-vessel had reported a yacht sinking nearby. At 8.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a south-westerly gale, with a heavyswell and rain, and about 10 o'clock found the yacht Lancashire Girl. Her occupants—a man, his wife, their three year old son, and another man—had just been taken off by the British motor vessel Eildon. The party could not be transferred to the life-boat until mid- night, however, when the vessels reached quieter seas off St. Helens.

The life-boat then made for Portsmouth where she landed the four people at H.M.S. Vernon Pier. The naval authorities gave hospitality to the life-boat crew, who left at eight o'clock in the morning and at twelve noon re-housed the life-boat at Selsey.— Rewards, £25 8s. 6d..