Hastings, Sussex. —• At 6.20 in the morning of the 13th of November, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning flares about two miles off Winchelsea, and later the Winchelsea coast watcher reported that the boat was at anchor.

The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 7.5 in a light west-south-west breeze with a calm sea.

and found the fishing boat Skylark, of Rye, with a crew of three, one and a half miles off Winchelsea. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her to Hastings and arrived back at her station at 9.3.—Rewards, £33 11s. 6d..