MAY 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. About one in the afternoon the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat off Pett Level appeared to be in difficulties, though she was not showing distress signals. At 1.35 the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched in a fresh breeze, with a moderate sea. She found the fishing boat Skylark, of Newhaven, a mile-and-a-half south of Pett.

Her engine had failed and her rudder guides were broken. The life-boat towed her to Hastings, arriving at 3.10. - Rewards, £18 10s. 3d..