Selsey, Sussex. At 4.35 on the after- noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that three bathers were in diffi- culties off Selsey Bill point. At 4.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific put out in a choppy sea. A fresh south- westerly wind was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. One bather was found clinging to a beacon pole and was rescued by the life-boat. Mean- while a helicopter had carried out a search for the other two men, but they had scrambled ashore in an exhausted condition. The helicopter landed and took one of these men to hospital.

The life-boat landed the bather whom she had rescued and who was also in need of medical treatment. A call was then made to the helicopter by V.H.F.

radio-telephone, and the helicopter took the man to hospital. The life- boat reached her station at 6.30.

Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 17s..