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Volga

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At three o'clock on the morning of the 14th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Volga was making water seven miles west-by-north of Porth- dinllaen Point. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 3.30.

It was low water, and there was a moderate northerly wind with a corres- ponding sea. The life-boat reached the yacht at seven o'clock and found the submarine Truncheon standing by. The life-boat took the yacht, which had four people on board, in tow to Porth- dinllaen, arriving at one o'clock. The owner made a donation to the Institu- tion's funds and a gift to the crew, who as a result did not wish to be paid the usual service rewards in this case..