DECEMBER 7TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

At 4.55 A.M. the Fairlight coastguard reported that two soldiers were either stranded on the Regiment on the wreck. They had gone out in wreck of the S.S. Barnhill, off Langley Point, a small boat, the boat had been swamped and had sunk and they had been on the wreck Eastbourne, or adrift in a small boat. A since 3.30 of the previous afternoon, over light westerly wind was blowing, with a slight 15 hours. The life-boat took them to sea. The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 6.40 A.M. and found two soldiers belonging to the Cheshire Hastings, which was reached at 9.55 A.M. A letter of thanks was received from the military authorities. - Rewards, £31 19s. 5d.

(See “Eastbourne, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats 1940,” page 57, and Eastbourne, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats 1941,” page 65.).