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An Air Sea Rescue Launch

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 26th of November, 1952, it was learnt that an air sea rescue launch in North Bay had parted one mooring, and that the other was badly frayed. She had no crew aboard, and the R.A.F. asked for the life-boat to take the crew to the launch. The life-boat John R. Webb was launched at 11.30 in a rough sea with a south-easterly wind of gale force blowing, put the crew aboard the launch, and stood by. After a time the launch slipped her moorings and came into harbour escorted by the life-boat, arriving at 12.35. The life-boat then went into the harbour, and was rehoused later after the weather had moderated.-—Rewards, £20 18*..