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Elaine

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1959, the coxswain saw a motor boat in difficulties two and a half miles north- west-by-west of Moelfre Island. At 12.45 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a rough sea. There was a south-westerly wind of nearly gale force and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the motor boat Elaine, whose engines had broken down. She took her crew of three on board and towed the boat in, arriving at her station at 1.40. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..