Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.55 in the after- noon, on the 8th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning red flares one and a half miles south-south-east of Selsey Bill.

The sea was choppy, with a light breeze blowing from the south-west, when at 4.8 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched. She found the sailing yacht Lady Jane with her foresail lost and one man on board. He was short of petrol for his outboard engine. The Lady Jane had been in tow of a motor boat, but the rope had parted; the life- boat therefore towed her in and arrived back at her station at 5.30 that evening.

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