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A Firefly Sailing Dinghy

Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1954, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that a Firefly sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, had capsized off Irish- man's Spit at the eastern end of the Menai Straits. At 5.25 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched. The sea was rough, a light breeze was blowing from west-south- west, and it was the last hour of the ebb tide. The life-boat found the two people clinging to their dinghy, rescued them, righted the dinghy, and towed it to her station, which she reached at 7.30.—Rewards, £12 3s..