APRIL 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. During the evening the yacht Brionieran aground two miles W.S.W. of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough sea.

The yacht’s distress was reported by the coastguard and the Selsey motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 7.50 P.M.

Seeing that she would have to make a long detour owing to the state of the tide, four men who had answered the maroon but were not needed in the life-boat’s crew, put off in a dinghy with an outboard motor. They made for the Brionie and when about a quarter of a mile from the wreck they picked up a dinghy with the yacht’s crew on board.

They towed the dinghy to the life-boat station. The life-boat reached the yacht but found no one on board and returned ashore at 10.20 P.M. - Rewards, Life-boat, £11 5s., Shoreboat £2 10s. and 3s. for fuel used..