Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — At 11.25 on the night of the 14th of April, 1952, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard telephoned that the Brighton police had reported an auxiliary yacht appar- ently in distress, half a mile off shore and a quarter of a mile west of the Palace Pier, Brighton. At 11.45 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched in a swell, with a light south-westerly breeze blowing. She found the yacht, the Cuban, of South- ampton. There was no one on board.

Four sailors had hired her. They had been rowing out to her in a dinghy, but it had capsized and they had been flung into the sea. A shore-boat rescued two of them and the life-boat searched for the other two until three o'clock the next morning, but she did not find them. She then towed the Cuban to Shoreham, and resumed the search, but she still found no trace of the men and returned to her station, arriving at 6.35 that morning.—Pro- perty Salvage Case..