Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.20 in the afternoon, on the 21st of October, 1950, the life-boat coxswain reported that a motor launch had hoisted a distress signal, a mile east of the station and about one and a half miles off shore.

Five minutes later the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a moderate sea and fresh easterly breeze. She found the speed launch Windrush with a crew of two. She had been disabled by an engine breakdown, and her wind- screen had been broken by the waves.The life-boat towed the launch and her occupants to Newhaven harbour, and returned to her station by half past six.

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