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Marie

Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 19th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned. A vessel had wirelessed that about seventeen and a half miles south of the Owers Lightvessel she had passed a motor cruiser which had broken down and was asking for help. At 11.3 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launch- ed in a rough sea with a south-westerly breeze blowing. An aeroplane alsobegan to search. The life-boat found the motor-cruiser Marie, of Faversham, twenty-one and a half miles south- south-east of the lightvessel, with a crew of two, bound for Hamble from Le Havre. Two life-boatmen boarded her and the life-boat towed her to Littlehampton, reaching her station again at 2.30 next morning.—Rewards, £34 3*. 3d..