JUNE 11TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 12.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking and men on a raft drifting out to sea, east of Seaford. The weather was calm. At 1.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched and found the vessel to be the motor vessel St. Ronaig, of Glasgow.

She had a crew of eight and was bound with potatoes from Jersey for Newhaven. She was thought, to have struck a mine. A naval vessel commanded by Lieut. Commander H.

L. Wheeler, R.N., the Institution’s southern district inspector of life-boats, had picked up a body and the life-boat brought this and another body ashore The Southern Railway tug Richmere rescued four men who were injured Nothing was seen of the other two members of the crew. The life-boat returned to her station at 4 P.M. - Rewards, £5 19s..