A SERVICE AND A FALSE ALARM Selsey, Sussex. At 6.4 p.m. on Thursday the 29th August, 1963, the coastguard reported to the assistant honorary secretary that a merchant ship had taken the yacht Crackerjack, of Southampton, with a crew of two, in tow. They were then six miles south of the Nab Tower and requested the life-boat to take over the tow as the yacht had machinery trouble. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 6.20 and took over the tow near the Owers lightvessel, taking the Crackerjack into Littlehampton. The life-boat left Littlehampton at 10.20 and picked up a message at 11.5 saying that a 13-year-old boy had put off from East Wittering in a small boat at seven o'clock and had not yet returned. The life-boat searched until 2.18 the following morning when another message was received saying that the boy had left his dinghy in Chichester Harbour and gone home over land. The life-boat was rehoused at three o'clock. The weather that night had been fair with a moderate sea and gentle breeze..