Hastings, Sussex. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a small sailing dinghy had capsized off St. Leonards about a quarter of a mile from the shore. At 5.18 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched three quarters of an hour before high water in a moderate easterly wind and a choppy sea. On reaching the position the coxswain found that an outboard motor dinghy from the local sailing club had arrived and had taken aboard two men from the sailing dinghy. The third person in the dinghy was a woman, who was suffering from slight shock.

She was hauled aboard the life-boat, wrapped in a blanket and given hot soup. Both the sailing dinghy and the outboard motor dinghy were taken in tow, and the two men and the woman were landed at the sailing club. The two dinghies were hauled ashore at the life-boat station at 6.25. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £20 16s..