GUNWALES AWASH At 8.15 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, a local resident telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a cabin cruiser had gone aground in the fresh south-easterly breeze and moderate seas at Saundersfoot.

The tide was three hours flood when, at 8.30, the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched. Half an hour later she reached the leaking cabin cruiser Belmura of Cardiff, jammed on a reef of rocks with one person aboard, fired a line to her and pulled her clear. Extra pumps were needed to keep the Belmura afloat, but even so her gunwales were awash during the tow to Saundersfoot harbour, where she sank one hour after being moored despite every effort to prevent her from doing so. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.45..