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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 9.40 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two children were stranded on Sully Island by the rising tide. At 10.10 the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a calm sea with a moderate north- westerly breeze blowing. She took a punt in tow and on reaching the island found that as many as nineteen people had been stranded. They were taken aboard the life-boat, which landed them at Barry at 12.10. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 2s..