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Lionesse

Selsey, Sussex. At 5.27 on the morn- ing of the 3rd of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had fired three flares two hundred yards south of the Owers lightvessel. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a strong west- south-westerly breeze with a rough sea and a flood-tide. She found the yacht Lionesse in difficulties and towed her to Littlehampton. Property salvage case..