Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, the police informed the coxswain that a yacht was firing flares in Normans Bay. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.23 in a rough sea with a moderate southerly gale blow- ing and a flooding tide. She found the motor cruiser Fair Maiden, of New- haven, unmanageable on a lee shore.

She took off her crew of three, put some members of the life-boat crew aboard, and towed the vessel to New- haven. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 8.45.—Property Salvage Case..