YACHT'S CREW FOUND EXHAUSTED Hastings, Sussex. Following a telephone call from the motor mechanic to the honorary secretary at 5.0 on the afternoon of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, it was decided to launch the lifeboat M.T.C., commanded by the second coxswain, to the aid of a yacht burning red flares and waving a white cloth 400 yards south-west of the harbour arm. It was the fifth hour of the ebb with a moderate breeze from the west. The casualty, the 25-foot yacht Sea King, asked the second coxswain for a tow to Newhaven as the crew of two were exhausted and seasick. It was decided that it would be better to tow the casu- alty leeward to Dover. While crossing Rye bay the tow parted, and as the casualty was becoming a more difficult problem it was decided to heave-to near the entrance to Rye harbour rntil the tide flowed sufficiently. After the yacht had been moored at Rye the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 12.10 a.m. after being at sea for eight hours..