On the morning of the 13th February, the local motor fishing boat Gipsy Queen, with two men on board, went out sprat-fishing off Fairlight Glen. Her engine broke down; she began to drift; and the men signalled for help. A moderate S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and rain. Another motor boat put out to help the Gipsy Queen, and began to tow her in, but when they got into some very broken water, about two hundred yards S.E. of the breakwater, the line parted. A watch had been kept on the boats, and the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 12.52 P.M. She reached the Gipsy Queen in a few minutes, towed her ashore, and returned to her station at 1.5 P.M.—Rewards, £25 4s. 9d.

(An account of the shoreboat service appears on page 461.).