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The Sailing Boat Osiris

Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a yacht needed help two miles south-east of Beaumaris. At 12.30 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched. The sea was rough, there was a fresh south-westerly breeze and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the 7-ton sailing boat Osiris, bound from Abersoch to Liverpool, with a crew of two. Her rudder and tiller were broken. The life-boat tow- ed her to Gallows Point, beached her there, and arrived back at her station at two o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 19s..