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Kaylena

Newhaven, Sussex. — About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1950, information was received that a small motor boat seemed to need help, one mile off Cuckmere Haven, At 3.20 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched in a calm sea and a slight westerly wind. She found the local motor boat Kaylena disabled by a broken shaft. One of her crew of three was transferred to the life-boat, which towed her into harbour, arriving at twenty minutes to five.—Rewards, £7 16s..