NOVEMBER 17TH. - NEWHAVEN SUSSEX. At 6.52 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard that an Admiralty patrol boat needed help about two miles south of the breakwater. The sea was rough, with a fresh S.S.W. wind blowing.

At 7.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched. She took the patrol boat in tow, but the fitting in the patrol boat to which the tow rope was fastened came out. The examination vessel at Newhaven, which had also been sent out, now arrived. She took the patrol boat in tow, and brought her into harbour with the lifeboat escorting them. The life-boat then returned to her station at 9.5 P.M. - Rewards, £14 17s.