Selsey, Sussex - At 7.54 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, a motor cruiser was seen burning distress flares about two miles off Middleton. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 8.7 in a calm sea with fog patches. It was four hours after high water. At 9.3 the life-boat came alongside the motor yacht Tessa and towed her, with three people on board, to Littlehampton.

The life-boat returned to her station at 12.15 a-m- on 22nd August..