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A Small Sailing Boat

Moelfre, Anglesey. •—• During the morning of the 7th September a man and a woman put off from Benllech in a small sailing boat. A strong squall sprang up from the south-west, and the sea became rough. The man and woman lowered the sails, but they were unable to manage the boat under oars, and she shipped a lot of water.

She was seen from the shore, and the motor life-boat G.W. put out at 12.45 P.M. She came up with the sailing boat, which was then nearly sinking, about two and a half miles S.E. of thelife-boathouse. The life-boat took the people on board and towed the boat ashore. She returned to her station at 2.20 P.M. A letter of thanks was received (see page 390).—Rewards, £5 5s. 6d..