SAVED FROM SINKING Eastbourne, Sussex. At 4.47 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel was flashing a distress signal from a position close inshore one mile east of Beachy Head lighthouse. The tide had just begun to ebb when at 5 a.m. the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched into a very rough sea and strong south-easterly wind.

She found that the motor boat Jean Luc was listing heavily to port, was without the use of her engine, and was sinking.

The motor boat was lashed to the life-boat and two of the life-boat's crew were put aboard. She was towed into Newhaven harbour where she was eventually beached. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.45..