NOVEMBER 24TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 4.50 in the morning a message was received at Shoreham Harbour from the coastguard that H.M. Trawler Avanturine, which had been left at anchor by the Newhaven life-boat off Newhaven, as described above, was dragging her anchor, and at five o’clock the motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched. She reached the trawler at 7.15. The trawler’s crew did not wish to be taken off,, but asked the life-boat to stand by. Thus she did.

Then, with a tug, she escorted the trawler into Newhaven harbour, arriving there at 12.28 in the afternoon. She returned to her station at six in the evening, having been out for thirteen hours. - A special reward of £1 was given to the coxswain and each of the seven members of the crew in addition to the ordinary reward on the standard scale of £1 17s. 6d. Additional rewards, £7 ; standard rewards, £13 15s. ; total rewards, £20 15s..