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Alouette de Mer

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 10.40 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1958, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was showing distress signals three quarters of a mile north of Point Lynas. At eleven o'clock the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a choppy sea, with a fresh south-westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. The life-boat found the yacht Alouette de Mer of Southampton, with a crew of three. The yacht had a broken rudder, and the life-boat towed her to Beaumaris, reaching her station at six o'clock. The owner of the yacht expressed his thanks. Rewards to the crew, £10. 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3. 12s..