Newhaven, Sussex. At 9.12 on the evening of the 17th of April, I960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht needed help off the west pier. At 9.30 the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at low water in a light north-north-easterly wind and a slight sea. She found the yacht Geordie, which had six people on board, with her engine broken down.

The life-boat towed the yacht to harbour, arriving at 10.15. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 2s..