Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.45 on the night of the 24th of March, 1949, the coastguard reported that a small vessel was burning flares about two miles south-west of the harbour. The life- boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 8.58 in a light easterly breeze, with a slight sea. She found the local motor boat Our Boys, with a crew of three, drifting two miles south-west of the breakwater with her engine broken down. The life-boat towed her to Newhaven, arriving at 9.55.—Rewards, £9 11s..