Hastings, Sussex. At 1.4 on the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the Hastings and St.

Leonards sailing club that a large yacht had reported to their rescue boat that a fishing boat was in trouble five miles south-west of Marine Court, St.

Leonards. The honorary secretary made further enquiries, and at 1.32 the life-boat Lucy Lovers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched.

There was a moderate sea, a fresh east- north-easterly wind was blowing, and it was an hour and a half before low water. After a search the life-boat found the fishing boat Resolute with a crew of four a mile and a half south-east of Langley Point. A blanket was flying from her masthead. The fishing boat had a serious engine fault and was drifting, and the life-boat took her in tow to Hastings, reaching her station at 6.4. Rewards to the crew, £11 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £23 11s..