THE Committee of Management has decided that a letter of appreciation should be sent to Coxswain John Bassett of Eastbourne for his part in the service by the Eastbourne life-boat when the trawler British Aviator and the motor vessel Crystal Jewel collided in dense fog on the 23rd September, 1961.

A full account of this service, in which thirty-one people were landed, appeared in the December 1961 number of the Life-boat on page 193..