Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.44 on the morning of the 9th of Sep- tember, 1956, a message was received from the coastguard that the Brighton police had reported that a girl from a capsized sailing dinghy had been found coming ashore at Hove. She had reported that there was a man in the sea about two hundred yards out. At 3.15 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched. There was a slight sea, a gentle east-north- easterly breeze was blowing, and thetide was ebbing. The life-boat made a search of the area and found the capsized sailing dinghy, but could find no trace of the missing man. She took the dinghy in tow and arrived back in the harbour at 9.5. A later report stated that the man had had a life-belt on, and as there still seemed, in view of this, some slight hope of finding him alive, the life-boat put to sea again. After a long but unsuc- cessful search in conjunction with a helicopter, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at two o'clock.

The body of the man was later washed ashore at Lancing.—Rewards to the crew, £20 13,9.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 10*..