Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 30th November, 1961, the honorary secretary received a request from the Superintendent of Trinity House, Cowes, for the life- boat to take off a sick man from the Owers lightvessel as soon as the weather had moderated enough for her to go alongside. A 8.32 the next morning the Owers lightvessel re- ported that the conditions were suit- able for the operation, and the life- boat Canadian Pacific was launched with a doctor on board in a moderate to fresh westerly wind and a moderate sea. It was two hours before low water. The sick man was taken off the lightvessel and brought to Selsey, which was reached at 11.30. A heli- copter was waiting there to convey the man to hospital..