DIVING BOAT TOWED AFTER BEING BEACHED Hastings, Sussex. At 11.10 on the morning of the 26th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the diving boat Missy, on passage from Newhaven to Hastings, had developed a serious leak and had been beached on the colonnade at Bexhill. The help of the life-boat was not needed, and at 12.35 a further message was received from the beach inspector at Bexhill that the Missy was being pumped out and it was hoped to refloat her by 5.30. There was a light variable breeze with a slight sea. At 5.30 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched on exercise for the purpose of testing her engines, and it was decided to visit Bexhill during the exercise to discover whether the Missy might need help. In fact the Missy was found to be just afloat near the beach suffering from a leak on the stern gland and a broken down engine, and her skipper asked for a tow to Hastings. The life-boat took the boat in tow and reached her station at seven o'clock..