Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 20th August,1961, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that at least ten sailing dinghies of the Shoreham yacht club had capsized during a local regatta. At four o'clock the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched in a fresh south-westerly breeze and a rough sea.

It was two hours before high water.

When the life-boat reached the area it was learnt that the crews of the cap- sized dinghies had been rescued by other craft. The coastguard then in- formed the coxswain that a large motor launch was disabled east of the harbour entrance. The launch had shortly before gone to the help of a capsized dinghy, and while she had been taking the two occupants of the dinghy on board the rigging and sails of the dinghy had fouled her propeller. The life-boat took the motor launch Pinnace in tow and reached her station at 5.50..