AUGUST 13TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.

At about 1.30 in the afternoon the Langney Point coastguard telephoned that seven men working on the wreck of the S.S. Barnhill should be taken off at once.

A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, the sea was rough, and the wreck would soon be awash. The Barnhill had been bombed in March 1940, and a salvage party was working on her in Pevensey Bay. At 1.50 P.M. the motor life-boat Jane Holland was launched, as no other suitable boat was available, rescued the seven men, and returned to her station at 2.50 P.M. - Rewards, £6 13s.

(See Eastbourne,“ Accounts of Services by Life-boats 1940,” page 57, and Hastings, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats 1940,” page 134.).