Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.55 in the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1948, the Strumble Head coastguard telephoned that a small vessel appeared to be in distress six miles to the west- ward. Five minutes later he saw her flying distress signals, and at 3.30 the motor life-boat White Star was launched.

A moderate north-north-east gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life- boat found pinnace No. 1349 at anchor.

She was bound from Plymouth to Port- madoc, with a crew of four, for fitting out, but her rudder had been disabled and she had been drifting for nearly twenty hours. Her skipper had left her in a punt, but he had nearly cap- sized, and had been helped ashore by the coastguard. Two life-boatmen went on board the pinnace and the life- boat towed her to Fishguard, arriving back at her station at 8.30 that evening.

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