ROCKETS FIRED Hastings, Sussex. At 2.47 a.m. on nth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small craft had fired red rockets from a position three miles south-east of the coastguard station.

At 3.4, with the tide three hours after high water, the life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched and made her way through a smooth sea and gentle north-westerly breeze to the fishing vessel William and Edwin whose propeller had been fouled. The vessel with her crew of two was towed to Hastings and the life-boat returned to her station at 4.40..