LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY ALL NIGHT IN FOG Selsey, Sussex. At 9.20 on the evening of the 22nd November, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from Niton radio station that the motor vessel Lantyan of Fowey, which had a crew of six, had run aground to the west of Littlehampton.

Seven minutes later the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched. She made a search in a light north-westerly breeze, a smooth sea and fog. The tide was ebbing. The Trinity House vessel Siren was also searching, and at 10.13 she wirelessed that she was launching a boat to take off the Lantyarfs crew. The life-boat reached the position two miles west of Littlehampton at 10.45. The Siren took off three of the crew and reported that she intended standing by the vessel until seven o'clock the next morning. The life-boat anchored a quarter of a mile from the Lantyan for the night and soon after eight o'clock helped to refloat the vessel. The lifeboat then escorted her to Littlehampton and returned to her station, arriving at 11.20 after being out on service for fourteen hours..