BOAT TAKEN IN TOW DURING EXERCISE Newhaven, Sussex. At 10.10 on the morning of the llth March, 1962, the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched for a routine exercise. There was a fresh north-easterly wind and a slight sea, and it was an hour and a half after low water. At 10.30 the coxswain noticed that the motor boat Pedro II of Newhaven was in difficulties two miles south-east of Newhaven harbour.

The motor boat had run out of fuel, and the life-boat took her in tow to Newhaven harbour, arriving at eleven o'clock. The life-boat then continued with the exercise..