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A Sailing Dinghy (1)

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that a boat was being blown off shore one mile east of the life- boathouse. At 12.40 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a calm sea with a gentle south-westerly breeze blowing and an ebb tide. She found a capsized sailing dinghy with her crew of two in the water. Thelife-boat rescued them and took the sailing dinghy in tow, arriving back at her station at 1.20. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 7s..