Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.43 p.m. on 27th November, 1965, flares were observed, fired from a small fishing boat which was drifting across Seaford Bay.

Her anchor cable had parted and her engines had failed. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.55 in a northwesterly gale force wind and a rough sea, three hours after high water. She found the motor boat Rosemary with a crew of four in a position half a mile off the Buckle Inn, Seaford, and took her in tow to a safe berth in Newhaven harbour, where she arrived at 5.40 p.m..