DRIFTING SLOOP Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.55 p.m. on 3ist October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile east of Worthing pier. The sea was choppy with a gentle breeze from the east. At 3.7, two hours after low water, the life-boat Dcrothy and Philip Constant was launched.

She found the sloop Jewel, which had a crew of two, drifting with her engines out of action. The sloop was towed by the life-boat to Shoreham Harbour and the life-boat returned to her station at 5.15..