Selsey, Sussex. At 9.52 on the morn- ing of the 18th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a trawler had sprung some plates and was making water rapidly nine miles south-west of Owers light- vessel. At 10.5 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a gentle easterly breeze and a choppy sea. It was the last hour of the flood tide. She stood by the trawler and then escorted her into Portsmouth before returning to her station at 5.30. Rewards to the crew, £15 17s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 3s..