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An Air-Sea Rescue Launch

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 24th of March, 1958, a message was received from 1115 Marine Craft Unit, Royal Air Force, that one of the unit's air-sea rescue launches had broken adrift from her moorings near the life-boat slip- way. The unit asked for the life-boat to be launched to put a crew aboard her.

At 7.15 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a rough sea.

There was a fresh north-easterly gale, and it was high water. The life-boat put three airmen aboard the launch and escorted her to her moorings. A letter of appreciation was received from the commanding officer. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 7s..