JULY 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. In the early hours of the morning several fishing boats were overtaken by a violent thunderstorm, and at 2.52 they were reported to be making for Rye harbour, but at 3.15 the coastguard reported that one was making distress signals four miles east of the coastguard station. The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 3.30, in a fresh south-easterly wind, with a moderately rough sea, and found the motor fishing boat Favourite, of Hastings. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her to Hastings, arriving at 5.30 that morning.- Rewards, £43 6s. 6d..