Newhaven, Sussex. — At 6.55 in the evening, on the 17th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht about two miles to westward and a mile off shore, was drifting eastwards.

She seemed to be out of control. At 7.5 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched in a very rough sea with a south-westerly gale blowing.

She found the motor yacht Deli, of Beaumaris, one and a half miles west of Newhaven harbour; but no crew.

Two life-boatmen boarded her and found her flooded; but they could not be sure that no one was on board.

They therefore made fast a tow rope and re-boarded the life-boat, which towed the Deli to harbour, reaching her station again at 8.50. It was learned later that the Deli's crew had been taken off by a steamer off the Nab Light the day before. This same day, the Bembridge life-boat had also launched, but found nothing.—Property Salvage Case..