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Auriol

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a sail- ing dinghy had capsized about one and a half miles east of the coastguard station. At 12.3 the life-boat John R.

Webb was launched, with the honorary secretary, Mr. D. Bancroft, on board.

The sea was calm, there was a light north-north-west breeze, and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat found thesailing dinghy Auriol waterlogged, with one man sitting on her bow and two others in the sea. The life-boat rescued them, towed in the dinghy, and reached her station again at 1.15.

—Rewards to the crew, £8; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 4s..