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C.H. 56

ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL WITH ENGINE BREAKDOWN Rhyl, Flintshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 7th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel appeared in difficulties about a quarter of a mile off Rhyl pier. Five minutes later the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched in a west-south-westerly wind of near gale force and a rough sea.

It was one hour after high water. The life-boat found the fishing vessel C.H.56 of Rhyl with her engine broken down.

She had a crew of three. The vessel's engine had broken down several times on her passage from Mostyn to Rhyl and she had shipped some heavy seas.

The engine was repaired, and the lifeboat escorted the fishing vessel safely to moorings in Rhyl harbour, reaching her station at 3.20..