Newhaven, Sussex. At 7.20 on the morning of the 9th of April, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian fishing vessel Celtic, which was four miles south of Newhaven, had water in her engine room and needed help. At 7.35 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched in a slight sea. There was a light north-westerly wind and an ebbing tide. The life-boat found the vessel being towed by a French trawler and stood by while both vessels made for Newhaven. At 9.8 the life-boat took the crew of four of the Celtic on board, as the water was rising rapidly in the fishing vessel, and in just over half an hour the Celtic sank two miles off Newhaven. An air-sea rescue launch and a helicopter co-operated in the service. The life-boat reached her station at 10.55. Rewards to the crew, £9. 16s..