AUGUST 8TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 3.20 P . M . information was received from the Beach Manager at Brighton, through the coastguard, that a number of men were marooned on the sea end of the Palace Pier at Brighton. They were unableto get to the shore as the centre part of the pier had been demolished by the military authorities as part of the defence of the coast against invasion. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 4.5 P.M. Captain C. T. Keigwin, R.N.R., the honorary secretary, and an armed guard were on board. A west-south-west breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough. The life-boat found 29 men on the pier, and with considerable difficulty and at some risk, in the heavy swell, she took them all off and landed them at Shoreham Harbour at 5.50 in the evening. Earlier in the morning of the same day, at 3.40 A.M., the crew had been assembled, as flares had been seen and gunfire had been heard at sea, and during the morning there had been two air-raid warnings.

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