Snoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 27th August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized outside the harbour.

The occupants of the boat, two men and a woman, managed to clear the sails and right the boat, which was drifting westwards. Their efforts to bale out the boat were unsuccessful. A moderate south-westerly wind was blow- ing with a slight sea. The tide was ebbing. At 3.50 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched and on reaching the scene picked up the three people who were in the water.

Several attempts were made to tow the boat into harbour, but she continually broke adrift and was finally abandoned a little way off the west breakwater. She was towed in later by another boat.

The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30. Rewards to the crew £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 9s..