Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the police at Worthing had reported a small sailing dinghy in difficulties one mile off Goring. At 2.50 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched in a rough sea with a fresh west-south-westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. On her way to the position the life-boat found a small fishing boat, which had broken adrift from her moorings at Lancing. The coastguard were informed and the life- boat continued her passage to Goring.

She found the yacht Fiery X with a crew of three. They did not need assistance, and after it had been confirmed by the pilot of a helicopter, which was also in the area, that no other boat required help the life-boat escorted the Fiery X to Shoreham harbour, arriving at 4.30.

Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..