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The Helwick Lightvessel

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.40 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House depot had asked for the life-boat to be launched to take a sick man off the Helwick light- vessel. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown put out at 6.50 in a fresh south- easterly wind and a rough sea. It was high water. The life-boat reached the lightvessel at 8.50 and took off the sick man, who was suffering from appendi- citis. He was landed safely and trans- ferred to hospital, and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.30. Re- wards to the crew, £11 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 11s..