Hastings, Sussex. At 11.26 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small craft was anchored between a mile and a half and two miles south-west of Galley Hill, Bexhill.

There did not appear to be anyone on board. At 11.39 the life-boat M.T.C.

was launched in a strong south-westerly wind and a very rough sea. It was an hour and a half after high water. The life-boat found the yacht Venus, with a young man sitting very low in a small cockpit, proceeding on an easterly course under a mizen-reefed main and foresail. In view of the bad weather the coxswain decided to escort the Venus to the life-boat station and wirelessed his intentions to the honorary secretary, who on receipt of this information mustered the shore helpers at the water's edge to await the arrival of the yacht. By fine seamanship the young man sailed his yacht ashore, and the waiting helpers pulled her clear of the sea. The life-boat was then housed and made ready for service at 1.30. The young man's father made a gift to the branch funds..