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A Sailing Boat (3)

Selsey, Sussex. At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized off Bognor Regis. At 3.55 the life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a choppy sea. A fresh north-easterly wind was blowing and the tide was ebbing. While the life-boat was on her way a message was received that a helicopter had rescued the sailing boat's crew of two. The life-boat took the capsized boat in tow to Selsey, arriving at 8.20. The mother of one of the rescued men sent a donation to the Institution's funds. Rewards to the crew, £11 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5..