AUGUST 23RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.

At about 10.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that the motor boat belonging to the monks on Caldy Island had broken down and was drifting on to the rocks at the back of St. Catherine’s Fort. A strong S.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea.

The motor life-boat John R. Webb was launched at eleven o’clock and found the drifting motor boat. She rescued the five men on board, and towed their boat to a buoy, where she moored it. The five men she landed at Victoria Pier. The life-boat then anchored, as, in the rough seas, she could not get back on the slipway. At about 12.50 P.M.

the motor boat parted from the buoy and drifted ashore. The life-boat put off again at 3.5 P.M., got a rope aboard the boat and towed her into harbour, arriving at 5 P.M.- Property salvage case..