Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.45 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a Dutch barge, which had an- chored off the east pier, had engine trouble and needed help to enter the harbour. At 5.31 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched.

The sea was rough, there was a gale blowing from the south-south-west, and the tide was ebbing. The life- boat found the Dutch barge yacht Marieke, with seven Englishmen on board, on the seaward side of the east breakwater. She had lost her bow- sprit and had broken down. The life- boat towed her to the harbour, reach- ing her station again at 7.30.— Property Salvage Case..