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A Yacht

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a fourteen-feet yacht, with a man and his wife on board, had capsized off Traeth Bychan. At 4.25 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched. There was a choppy sea and a strong west- north-west wind, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found that the two people had righted their yacht and that the man was on board. He had been unable to haul his wife in with him and she was clinging to the side of the yacht. The life-boat crew rescued them both, towed their yacht to Traeth Bychan, and reached her station again at 5.45.—Rewards to the crew, £4; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 5*..