Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 2nd of July, 1949, the coastguard reported a boat, anchored off Pett, flying a flag at half mast, and the life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at one o'clock in an east- south-east breeze with a slight sea.

She found the motor fishing boat My Lassie, of Rye, with her engine broken down. Taking the boat in tow the life-boat arrived back at Hastings at 2.57.—Rewards, £37 14s..