MOTOR CRUISER AGROUND NEAR SEA WALL Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning red flares in Seaford Bay, and at 1.50 the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched.

There was a moderate southwesterly breeze, the sea was rough, and it was high water. The life-boat found the motor cruiser Dahlia, which had a crew of two, ashore against the sea wall in Seaford Bay. A line was fired and a tow rope passed, and the yacht was towed to harbour. She had been severely damaged and was beached in Sleeper's Hole. The life-boat reached her station at 3.15..