Hastings, Sussex. At 3.29 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the mechanic that an angling boat Petchick II had been sent to the aid of a small dinghy which was in distress three quarters of a mile east-by-south of Fairlight look-out. A further message was then received that the dinghy was in serious trouble, and the coxswain decided to launch the life- boat. At 3.42 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched on the flooding tide. There was a westerly breeze with a moderate sea. The life-boat made for the position given and while searching received a message that the sailing dinghy Victory If, with her crew on board, had reached the shore safely. During the passage back to her station the life-boat received a further message that a sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile west-by-south of Galley Hill, Bexhill, and that two people were clinging to her. The life- boat made for the capsized dinghy, which was the sailing dinghy Wanton, but learnt that a rescue boat belonging to the Bexhill sailing club had rescued one of the occupants and that another two had been rescued by the angling boat Petchick II. The Petchick II had gone to the Wanton's aid at the request of the former motor mechanic. After the coxswain had satisfied himself that the rescued people needed no medical attention the life-boat picked up the sailing dinghy Wanton, which was beached at Hastings on the life-boat's return at 7.30..