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Caprice II

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 6.10 on the morning of the llth of Septem- ber, 1950, the Kingston-on-Sea coast- guard reported that a yacht, ashore between the Brighton piers, had asked for the life-boat. Five minutes later the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched in a moderate sea and fresh south-westerly breeze. She found the yacht Caprice II three hun- dred yards east of West Brighton pier with a crew of two. She was bound for Chichester. Using her line-throw- ing gun the life-boat got a rope aboard and towed the yacht to Shoreham Harbour, arriving back at her station at 9.25. The rescued men had been adrift for three days.—Property Salvage Case..