FEBRUARY 9TH. - HASTINGS; SUSSEX.

At 7.47 A.M. a message was received from the Fairlight coastguard that a vessel was ashore half a mile off Winchelsea. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. At 8.5 A.M. the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched, and found the fishing vessel Venus, of Rye, aground in a dangerous position a quarter of a mile from the shore.. With great difficulty in broken and shallow water the lifeboat went alongside and rescued the three men on hoard her. The skipper was suffering from exposure, and had injured his leg. He had to be taken to hospital. The lifeboat returned to her station at 10.10 A.M.. - Rewards, £26 14s. 3d..