Eastbourne, Sussex. At ten minutes after midnight on the morning of the 9th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the RoyalSovereign lightvessel and that one of the ships involved, the motor vessel Tarbeck of Hamburg, needed help.

At 12.45 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a moderate sea, with a light southerly wind blowing, fog and a flood tide. Ten minutes after launch- ing the life-boat was given a new position of the casualty, which was twelve miles south-west of Beachy Head. The life-boat found the Tarbeck and at her master's request stood by until tugs arrived to tow the vessel to Southampton. The life-boat then re- turned to her station, arriving at 8.30.

Rewards to the crew, £17 9s. ; rewards- to the helpers on shore, £19 5s..