Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.43 on the evening of the 31st of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Greyfriars had reported that the motor cruiser Syrinx, of London, which had a crew of five, had broken down and was drifting twelve miles east of the Owers lightvessel.

The Greyfriars took her in tow, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched to meet her. There was a swell and a moderate west-north-west breeze, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the Greyfriars off Shore- ham, and rescued the five people from the Syrinx. She then put a man in the Syrinx and towed her to Shoreham harbour, arriving at 1.40 early on the 1st of August.—Property Salvage Case..