SPEEDBOAT BROKEN DOWN IN HEAVY SWELL Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 14th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties off Saltdean and that persons aboard were waving. The motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 1 o'clock, in a south-westerly breeze and choppy sea, and found the speed- boat Firefly II, of Newhaven, with a skipper and two passengers aboard.

She was four miles west of Newhaven, off a rocky coast, a heavy swell was running and her engine had broken down. The life-boat hauled her clear, took the passengers on board, and towed the speedboat and her skipper into Newhaven, arriving back at her station at 3 o'clock.—Rewards, £9 7s. 6d..