Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.5. on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two red rockets had been reported in Norman's Bay, and that a boat was burning red flares about four miles out to sea. The weather was calm, but visibility was poor. A light northerly wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth. At 5.30 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched on an ebbing tide. When two and a half miles south-east of Norman's Bay she found the fishing boat N.N.III of Pevensey Bay with her engine seized.

The fishing boat was taken in tow and brought to Pevensey Bay and beached.

The life-boat returned to her station at 7.20..