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The Helwick Lightvessel

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 4th of January, 1957. the coastguard telephoned to say that the Trinity House Superintendent at Swansea had asked for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick man from the Helwick lightvessel. At two o'clock the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched. There was a rough sea. a strong south-westerly breeze was blowing, and it was low water. The sick man was transferred to the life- boat, which arrived back at her station at 6.10.—Rewards to the crew, £14 5.s.; rewards to the helpers on shore. £6 8,9.

Refunded to the Institution by Trinity House..