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A Dinghy

Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 12.3 on the afternoon of the 16th of April, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a dinghy with two boys on board was drifting out to sea off Rhoscolyn Island. At 12.10 the life-boat St.

Cybi, Civil Service No. 9 was launched.

The sea was calm, with a light north- north-east breeze blowing. An R.A.F.

amphibious D.U.K.W. also put out.

The D.U.K.W. found the dinghy one and a half miles south of Rhoscolyn and took it in tow. Shortly after- wards the life-boat also reached the position. The D.U.K.W. asked the life-boat to take the dinghy to Treard- dur Bay. The life-boat took over the tow, landed the boys in Trearddur Bay, and reached her station again at 3.10.—Rewards, £8 7s..