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CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Holyhead, Anglesey.—Just after mid- day on the 4th of May, 1947, the coast- guard reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide at Forth Towyn. and the motor life-boat A.E.D.

left her moorings at 12.30, in a heavy ground swell and a southerly breeze.

Twenty minutes later she found the men on a rock, and rescued them by means of a line. She returned to her station at 1.30.—Rewards, £4 105..