DECEMBER 16TH and l7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 12.12 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a steamer, off Goring, was going round in circles and sounding her whistle. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 1.4. In the absence of the coxswain on pilotage duties the station secretary, Captain C. T. Keigwin, R.D., R.N.R., went out and co-operated with the second-coxswain in handling the life-boat. About an hour later the life-boat found the Polish steamer Chorzow a mile south of Goring. She was bound, laden with coal, from Newport to Shoreham, She had a crew of over twenty, one of them a woman. As the captain of the Chorzow was uncertain of his position two life-boatmen were put aboard to pilot the steamer to an anchorage off Shoreham, and to warn the captain that if it came on to blow he should up-anchor and get out to sea. After the Chorzow had anchored the life-boatmen were taken off and the lifeboat returned to her station, arriving in harbour at 4.38. The secretary kept in touch with the coastguards, who were watching the Chorzow, and at 3.40 in the morning of the 17th he was told that she was drifting and out of control. It was not thought that the lifeboat could be of service, but when the steamer was about 500 yards from the shore, and likely to strand, she was launched. It was then 4.57. The steamer went ashore on the beach 100 yards from the coastguard lookout, and the life-boat made repeated, but unsuccessful, efforts to get alongside, in the course of which one of her crew was nearly swept overboard by the heavy seas. The steamer’s crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. After standing out to sea for a time until conditions allowed her to return, the life-boat came in at 11.20 that morning. The owners of the steamer, the Gdynia-America Shipping Lines Ltd., gave £10 10s. in appreciation of the lifeboat’s help. - Rewards, £6 5s. and £22 9s. 6d..