MAN TAKEN ON BOARD AND DINGHY TOWED IN Hastings, Sussex. At 3.58 on the afternoon of the 22nd March, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic, in the absence of the honorary secretary, that the Bexhill police had reported a dinghy apparently in distress half a mile off East Parade, Bexhill.

There was a near gale from the northnorth- east with a choppy sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 4.11 and made for the position given. She came up with the dinghy Jenny at 4.55 and found another dinghy, which had gone to the Jenny's help, alongside her. The one man in the Jenny was taken on board the life-boat. The life-boat escorted the second dinghy safely ashore, and then returned to her station, with the survivor on board and his dinghy in tow, arriving at 6.10..