ENGINE FAILURE T At 4.53 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were trying to row ashore from a motor fishing vessel anchored five miles south-south-east of Hastings. The honorary secretary went to the life-boathouse to investigate, but just as he arrived a squall of wind and rain passed over the area obscuring the rowing boat. After the squall had passed the honorary secretary could see the motor fishing vessel but no sign of the dinghy and then by chance he saw a light reflec- ted from a windscreen of the dinghy, which was obviously in a bad position three to four miles south of the lifeboat station. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 5.29 in a strong north-northwesterly wind and a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found two men in a fibreglass dinghy with no engine and broken rowlock boxes, almost swamped in attempting to paddle ashore. They were taken aboard the life-boat and given hot refreshments. The life-boat then went to the position of the motor fishing vessel Trustful and the coxswain found the vessel abandoned at anchor with engine failure. After landing the two men the life-boat towed the Trustful to Newhaven and reached her station at 3.40 a.m. on the 20th April..