Eastbourne, Sussex. At 6.17 on the evening of the 31st of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that the sailing dinghy Alsatia had capsized one mile south of the pier and that her crew of three were in the water. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 6.23 in a slight sea with a moderate north- north-easterly wind blowing and a flood tide. She rescued the three people and took the dinghy in tow to East- bourne, arriving at her station at 6.55.

Rewards to the crew, £9 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 8s..