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A Rowing Boat (1)

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 9.40 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1953, the coxswain received a message that three people had gone out fishing at six o'clock in a small rowing boat fitted with an outboard motor, and that they had not returned. There was a dense fog, and at 9.45 the life-boat G.W. was launched in a calm sea with a light northerly breeze blowing. The fog was too thick to allow the search- light to be used, and the life-boatmen shouted through a megaphone while searching. In Dulas Bay they heard answering shouts and found the boat broken down and drifting in a strong tide. The life-boat rescued the three people and towed the boat to her station which she reached at 12.30 early on the 8th.—Rewards, £9 13s..