Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 7.44 on the night of the 8th of August, 1951, the Shoreham coastguard tele- phoned that a small ship was on fire one mile south-east of Shoreham Harbour.

At 7.59 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn launched in a slight sea with a light north-westerly breeze blowing. She went to the position given and found the cabin cruiser Aphrodite ablaze. The owner had taken to a small boat which the ship had in tow. He was taken on board the life-boat and treated for shock by a doctor who had gone out with the crew. The life-boat then took his small boat in tow and landed him at Hove. She returned to her station by 9.30.—Rewards, £8 3*..