Hastings, Sussex. At 10.55 on the morning of the 16th of February, 1958, the Fairlight coastguard told the honor- ary secretary that a vessel was in diffi- culties off Bexhill. The life-boat M.T.C.

was launched at 11.3 in a calm sea.

There was a light west north-westerly wind and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the S.S. Else Skou of Copen- hagen one mile south of Bexhill. She had been in collision with another vessel the day before and had a very bad list. Her master asked the cox- swain if the life-boat would escort him to Dungeness and arrange for a pilot as far as Dover. A pilot cutter was asked to meet the Else Skou, and the life-boat escorted the steamer to Dunge- ness and then returned to her station, arriving at 7.25. Rewards to the crew, £22 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £22 4s..