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A Dinghy (4)

Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 5.5 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing dinghy was adrift in Beaumaris Bay and needed help. At 5.25 the life- boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in a choppy sea, with a light south-westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. She found the sailing dinghy a mile and a half south of the life-boat slipway half filled with water. Two young men who were on board were transferred to the life-boat, which then took the dinghy in tow to Beaumaris, arriving at 6.10. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..