Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.50 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1951,, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was burning flares one mile off the Re- doubt. At 8.30 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched accompanied by the local joint honorary secretary, Mr. Cecil F. Baker, F.R.I.C.S. The sea was rough, with a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing. The life-boat found the fishing trawler May Blossom, of Shore- ham, with a crew of two, one and a half miles south of the life-boat station.

She was bound from Rye to Shoreham, but her engine had broken down. The crew asked the life-boat to tow them to Newhaven, so the Beryl Tollemache took the May Blossom in tow, moored her in Newhaven Harbour, and arrived back at her station at 1.45. the next morning.—Rewards, £45 13,9..