Eastbourne, Sussex - At 4.48 p.m. on nth March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had fired a red flare and one of her crew was waving a coat attached to an oar.

There was a fresh westerly breeze with a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The life- boat Beryl Tollemache launched at 5.10 and reached the position given. There she came up with the small boat, whose engine had failed, rescued her crew of four and took the boat in tow with a member of the life-boat's crew on board. The small boat was beached at 5.42 and the life-boat was rehoused at 6.21 p.m..