Hastings, Sussex.—At 2.8 on the afternoon of the llth of March, 1953, the Fairlight coastguard reported that an angler appeared to be in difficulties in a rowing-boat, about two miles south of Hastings pier, and was waving a flag. At 2.16 the life-boat M.T.C.

was launched in a slight sea, with a light north-easterly breeze blowing.

The man was found to be suffering from a bad knee and had been unable to row ashore. The life-boat rescued him, towed the boat to the shore, and reached her station again at 3.5.— Rewards, £24 Is. 6d..