STRAPPED ALONGSIDE Hastings, Sussex. At 7.10 p.m. on i6th April, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed by the Hastings and St.

Leonards Angling Club that distress flares had been fired from the angling boat Lady Molly about five miles southsouth- west of Hastings harbour arm.

The life-boat Fairlight was launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and smooth sea. The Lady Molly's engine had broken down and she was making water. Her three occupants were taken on board the life-boat and three of the life-boat crew were put aboard the Lady Molly. As it became apparent that the casualty would sink, she was strapped alongside the life-boat and taken to the life-boat station, where the three men were landed at 8.36 p.m..