Selsey, Sussex.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Vigilance, of Shoreham, which had left Shoreham for Portland on the 31st of July with a crew of three, was drifting two and a half miles south of Littlehampton. The owner of the yacht was by himself, as the other two members of her crew had gone ashore.

At 7.20 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a calm sea, with a light south-westerly breeze blowing and a flooding tide. The life-boat found that the Vigilance, which had formerly been a trawler, was not sea- worthy, so she towed her to an anchorage off Littlehampton and re- turned to her station, arriving at 11.30.

—Rewards to the crew, £12 19s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7..