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Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 in the morn- ing of the 13th of June, 1952, a life- boatman who had returned from fishing, reported a yacht aground north of Looe Channel. The sea was calm, the southerly breeze light, but there was a thick fog. The yacht's crew were six American airmen, returning from Boulogne. They had asked for help. At 9.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific left her moorings. She found that the yacht was the auxiliary cutter Spray, of Cowes. She was hard on the rocks. A life-boatman boarded her. The life-boat then towed her clear on the rising tide. As she appeared undamaged she went on her way, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 12.10 that after- noon.—Rewards, £13 14,?. Qd..