AID FOR ANGLERS Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.45 p.m. on 2Oth October, 1963, the secretary of the local angling association told the honorary secretary that two of their members aged 78 and 60 were in a motor boat broken down about four miles off shore.

There was a fresh south-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was high water. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 2.16 and came up with the casualty at at 2.23. The fishing boat was taken in tow and brought back to Eastbourne at 2.42.

Each member of the life-boat crew received a gift from the fishingboat'sowner.

The life-boat was also called out on the 19th October, 1963..