RED FLARES At 10.52 a.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a 45-foot boat towing a yacht had fired three or four red flares 250 yards off Elma Beach.

The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at ii a.m. in a light north-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was one hour before high water. A helicopter was also sent and hovered over the vessels until the life-boat arrived at noon. The 45-foot boat had broken down and both vessels, the ex-motor fishing vessel Spectre and the yacht Nola, were taken in tow to Littlehampton which was reached at i p.m. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 3.26 p.m..