MAN DIED Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.58 p.m. on I3th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small boat, Mako, was in distress eight miles south-west of Newhaven.

The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.5 in a moderate southwesterly breeze and smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat was told that one of the crew of the Mako was in a bad condition and that a doctor had been notified. The life-boat observed two boats and saw that a helicopter, which had also been called out, was lowering a man to one of them. When the life-boat reached the Mako she found that one of her four occupants had died. The life-boat towed the Mako, which had a rope foul of her propeller and rudder, to Newhaven and returned to her station at 745 p.m..