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MAN ABOARD FISHING BOAT RESCUED Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 1.8 early on the morning of the 3rd May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he could see a vessel flashing SOS about three miles south-east of the harbour. There was a moderate west-south-westerly breeze with a corresponding sea. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 1.25 on an ebbing tide. She made for the position given and found the fishing boat Bounty, which had one man on board, with a trawl foul of her propeller. The life-boat towed the Bounty to Shoreham and then returned to her station, arriving at 5.10. The rescued man made a gift to the life-boat crew..