Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.50 on the morning of the 18th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was dismasted two miles south- west of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel.

Ten minutes later the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a rough sea. There was a strong-westerly wind blowing and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the position and took a small cabin sloop, with a crew of two, in tow to Newhaven, arriving there at 11.15. She reached her station at 1.30.—Rewards to the crew, £12 13*.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £15 96'..