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The Converted Brixham Trawler Forseti

Selsey, Sussex. At 9.36 on the morning of the 18th of November.

1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the converted Brixham trawler Forseti of Newhaven was ashore off Selsey Bill. At 10.4 it was confirmed that the position where she was ashore was Borough Head, four miles south-east of Selsey Bill. At 10.15 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a choppy sea, with a moderate east-south-easterly wind blow- ing and a flood tide. A helicopter from the Royal Air Force station at Thorney Island located the Forseti, which had a crew of four. Her engine had broken down, and the life-boat took her in tow to Littlehampton, reaching her moorings at 7.45. Rewards to the crew, £24 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 5s.