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Helping Hand

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a trawler had engine trouble between no. 2 and no. 3 buoys eight miles off Tenby. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 11.10 in a choppy sea. There was a moderate south-westerly wind and it was high water. The life-boat found that the trawler, which was the Helping Hand of Swansea, with a crew of three, had a trawl foul of her propellers.

After towing the trawler to Caldey Island, where she was beached on Priory beach, the life-boat returned to moorings at Tenby. At low water the trawler's crew cleared the propellers, and at seven o'clock in the evening the life-boat returned to stand by until the trawler floated clear. When it was evident that the trawler needed no further help, the life-boat returned to her station and was rehoused at 8.30.

Rewards to the crew, £11 11s. ; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £6..