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Two Rowing Boats

SIX RESCUED FROM TWO BOATS Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 6th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four children were in difficulties in a rowing boat off Proud Giltar. Twelve minutes later the lifeboat Henry Comber Brown was launched with the western district inspector of life-boats in command. She made for the position in a fresh westerly breeze, a moderate sea and an ebbing tide and found two small rowing boats about a hundred yards from the cliffs. Three girls and a boy were in one of them, and two men, who had put out to their help, were in the other boat. Both boats, which were half full of water, were in considerable danger. The life-boat rescued the six people, took the boats on board, and made for Tenby, which she reached at five o'clock..