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The Helwick Lightvessel (1)

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of December, 1959, the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was returning to her station from an exercise, during which she had taken Christmas parcels to the Helwick and St. Gowan's lightvessels, when a message was received from the master of the Helwick lightvessel asking if the life-boat could land an electrician, who had been carrying out repairs aboard the lightvessel. The life-boat was then four miles off Caldy Island, but returned to the lightvessel and em- barked the electrician. She landed him at Tenby and reached her station at 6.40. Rewards to the crew, £14 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 9s..