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Concordia

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd ofJuly, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a trawler had broken down off Caldy Island. The coast- guard confirmed the report at 5.42 and the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched six minutes later. There was a gentle south-south-westerly wind, with a moderate sea and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the Belgian trawler Concordia off Chapel Point. Her engine had been repaired, and the life- boat escorted her to harbour, arriving at 6.40. The life-boat reached her station at 6.50. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 12s..