Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of Nov- ember, 1952, the Eastbourne coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station that the S.S. St. Walburg, of Groningen, which was about one mile south of Bexhill, had wirelessed that she had an injured man on board and asked for a doctor and a boat to land him. At 12.20 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched with a doctor on board, and made for the steamer in a rough sea and strong south- westerly breeze. At 12.31 the Fairlight coastguard informed the Hastings life-boat station, and at 12.50 the Hastings life-boat M.T.C. was also launched with a doctor on board.

She made for the position, but the coxswain saw the Eastbourne life-boat go alongside the steamer and take the man off, and he took the M.T.C. back to her station, arriving at 2.50. The Eastbourne life-boat landed the injured man at Eastbourne at 2.30.—Rewards.

—Eastbourne, £26 12s.; Hastings, £20 7,?. 6d..