Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been dismasted close to the Owers lightvessel. There was a fresh south-westerly wind with a rough sea, and the tide was ebbing. At 1.22 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched.

On reaching a position three miles west- south-west of the Owers lightvessel she found the yacht Alcina, which had a crew of five, dismasted. The life-boat towed the Alcina to Portsmouth and returned to her station at 8.15 that evening..