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Warwick

Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.25 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the s.s. Pompey Light of Portsmouth that she was standing by the cabin cruiser Warwick, which was in distress four miles south-west of Beachy Head. The life-boat Kathleen and Phyllis Lunn was launched in a fresh south-westerly breeze and a rough Mary was launched at 3.55 in a moder- ate south-westerly breeze and a rough sea. The life-boat reached the position an hour later and found the cabincruiser Warwick with her engine broken down. She had a crew of two. The life- boat took her in tow to Newhaven, arriving at 7.20. The owner of the cabin cruiser made a gift to the crew..