HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT TAKE FIVE TO HOSPITAL Selsey, Sussex. At 12.34 p.m. on Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the Selsey coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy was very low in the water and in a sinking condition three-quarters of a mile west of the Owers lightvessel. At 12.45 the life-boat Canadian Pacific launched in a fresh north-north-westerly wind and rough sea. It was high water. The five people from the dinghy had been taken on board the Dutch vessel Eemstroom and the life-boat arranged a rendezvous with her to take off the survivors, who were suffering from exposure and shock. The life-boat took them on board and returned to Selsey where a doctor attended to them and applied oxygen to one, after which they were taken to hospital by helicopter. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.45..