LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.58 p.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard told the wife of the motor mechanic that a cargo ship was on the rocks five miles east of Selsey Bill. The motor mechanic was on his way home from the previous launch and was met by his wife with the message.

There was a light north-easterly breeze and a smooth sea. It was an hour and a hah0 before high water. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 4.10 and found the motor vessel Ariel aground on the rocks known as Outer Owers with her radio out of order. The master requested the life-boat to stand by until his ship refloated. The Ariel refloated at 9.30 and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.33 P-m-.