Shorehani Harbour, Sussex. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from Niton radio station that two members of the crew of the motor vessel Scharhorn of Hamburg had been badly burned and needed a doctor.

The Scharhorn was then fourteen miles east of Brighton and arrangements were made for the life-boat to meet the vessel off Brighton in three quarters of an hour. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched with a doctor on board at 2.5 in fine weather and a calm sea. The tide was ebbing.

The life-boat came alongside the Schar- horn, and the two seamen were trans- ferred to her. On the return trip the doctor attended to their burns and they were taken to hospital on being landed at Shoreham harbour at 3.32. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..