Selsey, Sussex - At 10.34 a.m. on 8th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser was aground on Kirk Arrow shoal, half a mile south of Selsey Bill. It was hoped she would refloat unassisted but at 10.45 she fired a flare. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 10.50. The tide was flooding. Contact was made with the motor cruiser Gay Toucan with two people on board. Her engines could not berestarted after she had grounded.

The cruiser was taken in tow to Littlehampton and the life-boat returned to her station at 3 p.m..