TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AFTER ENGINE BREAKDOWN Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.25 early on the morning of the 2nd June, 1963, the Newhaven coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen between three and a half and four miles to the south-east of Newhaven.

At 1.40 the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched. There was a moderate north-easterly wind and a slight sea. It was low water. Soon after they had launched the crew of the lifeboat saw a flare off Beachy Head, and the life-boat made for that area, where she found the fishing vessel Silver Wings four and a half miles south of Beachy Head with a crew of two on board. The fishing vessel's engine had broken down.

The life-boat took her in tow back to Newhaven, arriving at 4.45..