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LOBSTER FISHERS ADRIFT ALL NIGHT St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.40 on the morning .of the 14th of August, 1947, information was received that two men, who had left Solva in their motor fishing boat Don to attend to their lobster pots, were about twelve hours overdue. The coastguard had seen nothing of them. The motor life- boat Civil Service No. 6, was launched at 8 o'clock in a light south-easterly breeze and a calm sea, and found the Don off Carreg-y-Rhosson. Her en- gine had broken down and she had been drifting all night. The life-boat gave the two men cocoa and towed the fishing boat to Forth Stinnan. She arrived back at her station at 9.30.— Rewards, £6 14s..