LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

None (1)

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1957, the coxswain was told by telephone that a girl bather was being carried out to sea on the ebb tide at the estuary of the Red Wharf Bay River. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a choppy sea. There was a gentle north-north- westerly breeze blowing and the tide was ebbing. In the meantime a local doctor and another man had gone to the girl's help in an outboard motor canoe, but the canoe had capsized before they had been able to reach the swimmer. When the life-boat arrived on the scene two members of her crew jumped into the sea and one swam towards the girl to help her keep afloat. The other helped the two men from the capsized canoe into the life-boat. The life-boat was beached at Beullech to land the three rescued people. She then returned to her station, arriving at 8.30. The mother of the girl made a donation to the Institution's Funds.—Rewards to the crew, £13 4,?.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 4*..