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Faith Star

Rhyl, Flintshire. At 5.5 on the after- noon of 25th April, 1961, a message was received at the life-boat house that the fishing vessel Faith Star of Fleetwood, with an engine defect, was dragging her anchor off the Point of Air. The message was passed to the coastguard and at 5.7 the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched. There was a strong south- easterly wind with a rough sea. It was two hours before high water. The life- boat reached the Faith Star at 6.45and escorted her to Rhyl, arriving at 9.10..