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The Rowing Boats Ann and Flying Dutchman

CREWS RESCUED FROM TWO ROWING BOATS Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.40 on the evening of the 5th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the rowing boats Ann and Flying Dutchman of Benllech were in distress five miles south of the life-boat station. At 5.50 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat rescued the Ann's crew of four, who were scouts, and the two people on board the Flying Dutchman and towed both boats to Moelfre, which was reached at 7.15..