Hastings, Sussex.—About 12.40 in the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1949, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat from Dungeness, with one man on board, appeared to be at anchor half a mile south by east of Fairlight Cove, but was drifting. A later message said that the boat had drifted two miles to the east-north-east and that the man could not now be seen.

The life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at two o'clock, in a fresh south-westerly breeze, with a moderate sea, and came up with the boat one and a half miles south of Winchelsea.

The man had anchored his boat and had falleri asleep. While he slept the boat had drifted. The life-boat towed her to Hastings and reached her station again at 4.16.—Rewards, £41 Is. 6d..