WASHED ASHORE Hastings, Sussex. At 7.25 a.m. on 6th October, 1964, the skipper of the fishing boat Patricia Peggy telephoned the honorary secretary to say that because of engine failure his boat had been washed ashore at low water in the moderate westerly breeze and choppy seas at Dungeness. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 7.42. She found the Patricia Peggy five miles east of Rye harbour and passed a tow line to her by using rockets.

The boat was towed into Hastings and the life-boat reached her station at 1.2 p.m..