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A Dinghy (2)

ESCORT FOR DINGHY IN TOW Moclfre, Anglesey. At 11.50 on the morning of the 17th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat was in distress three and a half miles south-south-east of the life-boat station, and at noon the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a moderate southwesterly wind and a moderate sea. It was low water. The life-boat found a 10-foot dinghy from Benllech, with a crew of two, off Penrhyn Head, near Traeth Bychan, unable to make any headway against wind and tide. Another boat had taken her in tow, and the life-boat escorted both boats to the shore, arriving back at her station at two o'clock..