DECEMBER 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.

At 9.40 at night the coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel off Middleton, and at ten o’clock the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a strong, northerly wind with a moderate sea running.

She searched for over two hours, and it was not until half an hour after midnight that she saw red rockets and eventually found the vessel ashore one mile east of Middleton. She was the S.S. Kaida, of Leith, with a crew of eleven, bound, laden with maize, from London to Southampton. As it was nearly high water the life-boat was able to go alongside. She took off eight of the crew and landed them at Littlehampton at three in the morning. At low tide the remaining three members of the Kaida's crew waded ashore. The steamer looked like becoming a total wreck. The life-boat reached Selsey again at seven that morning.

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