Selsey, Sussex. At 8.49 on the even- ing of the llth of June, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in distress one mile south-by-west of Selsey Bill. At 8.57 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched, two hours after high water, in a moderate to strong westerly breeze and a rough sea. The life-boat found the yacht Dawn Wind, of Hamble, in broken water. "She had lost her rudder and also had engine trouble. The life-boat took the yacht's crew of three on board, but an attempt to tow the yacht failed, and she was abandoned.

The life-boat landed the three sur- vivors at Selsey and reached her station at 11.35. The Dawn Wind eventually came ashore at Bognor a total loss. Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 18s..