Hastings, Sussex.—At 1.40 in the afternoon on the llth of August, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a yacht was showing distress signals one mile off South Pett. She was the Hilary, a converted life-boat, bound from Boulogne to Newhaven with four people on board. At 1.50 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched.

The sea was rough with a moderate west-south-westerly breeze blowing.

The life-boat reached the Hilary at •2.30, took off two schoolboys, and towed the ship into Rye Harbour, getting back to her station at 7.15.— Rewards, £36 8s. 6d..