TOW FOR MOTOR WSSEL WITH FIVE ABOARD Hastings, Sussex. At 3.57 p.m. on Sunday the 21st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the wife of the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Sea Clown of Rye had broken down off Pett Level. There was a gentle north-easterly breeze with a slight sea. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 4.10 on the ebbing tide. The life-boat came up with the Sea Clown, which had five people on board, at 4.55. The motor vessel had engine trouble and was towed to Hastings by the life-boat. The life-boat landed the one woman on board the casualty before returning to her station, which she reached at 6.10 p.m..