Lady Admiral
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized in Pevensey Bay. At 3.6 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a rough sea, with a strong south-westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. The life-boat reached the position and found that two young men, who had been aboard the dinghy, had been transferred to the fishing boat Lady Admiral and the dinghy had been taken in tow. The life-boat escorted the fishing boat until the men and dinghy had been put safely ashore and then returned to her station, arriving at 4.10. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £12 6s..