Hastings, Sussex. At nine o'clock on the night of the 30th of October, 1960, when the wind was freshening from the south-west, it was learnt that one of five trawlers, which had been out fishing, the Patricia Peggy, had not returned to harbour. As the weather was becoming rapidly worse, the life- boat M.T.C. was launched at 12.5 into a rough sea on an ebbing tide to search for the Patricia Peggy. She found the boat a mile south-west of Fairlight coastguard station in no serious trouble but making heavy weather. The life- boat escorted the Patricia Peggy back to Hastings, returning to her station at 1.30 in the morning..