BOAT AND FIVE TOWED TO SAFETY Hastings, Sussex. At 8.15 on the evening of Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor boat Britannia appeared to be having engine trouble three-quarters of a mile south east of Hastings. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 8.40 in a gentle southwesterly wind and slight sea three hours after low water. She took the motor boat with five people on board in tow to Hastings. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.20. A donation to branch funds and a gift was made to the life-boat crew by the Britannia's owner..