Selsey, Sussex. At 6 p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been observed a half a mile south of Chichester Harbour. A R.A.F.

helicopter from No. 22 squadron, Thornney Island, made a search and discovered that the lights were from a yacht, with two people aboard, which was aground.

The helicopter asked for help and the lifeboat Canadian Pacific was launched at 7 p.m. in a gentle easterly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat went to a point near Winner Sands, where she stood by until the yacht Jenny Rose had refloated on the flooding tide, and then returned to her station at 10.15.