FEBRUARY 8TH and 9TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Just before noon the Trinity House at Swansea telephoned to the life-boat station at Tenby, asking if the life-boat could be sent to the St.

Govans Light-vessel as the head keeper was seriously ill and provisions were urgently needed. At 12.35 that afternoon the motor life-boat John R. Webb was launched. A south-westerly gale was blowing and the sea was heavy. She had eighteen miles to go.

When she was out of the shelter of Caldy Island, and within two or three miles of the light-vessel, a particularly big sea broke aboard her. It wrecked the steering wheel and bent the steering shaft. Almost at once the life-boat was nearly overwhelmed by another sea. The coxswain, the second-coxswain and the motor-mechanic were all injured, and the acting assistant motormechanic was seriously injured. He had his pelvis and ribs fractured. He was F. Hooper, aged 71. In spite of the injuries the crew temporarily repaired the steering gear, and the life-boat was able to get back to her station, arriving about five that afternoon.

At 5.40 the Tenby coastguard telephoned to the Angle life-boat station, asking, on behalf of Trinity House, if the Angle lifeboat would go to the light-vessel as soon as the weather moderated. At seven o’clock next morning the 9th of February, the motor life-boat Elizabeth Elson, with the second coxswain in command, was launched. The gale was now blowing from the north-west, and the sea was still rough. The life-boat was able not only to put the provisions on the light-vessel, but to take off the sick man and a workman who had been weather-bound there for two weeks. She landed the men at Milford Haven and reached her station again at one that afternoon.

Trinity House expressed “their best thanks for the assistance rendered by the life-boats.” In view of the arduous services of the Tenby life-boat the Institution made an increase in the usual money award on the standard scale to each member of the crew. Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £28 ; additional rewards to crew, £9 ; total rewards to Tenby crew and helpers, £37. Rewards to Angle crew and helpers, £16 3s. A permanent allowance was made to F. Hooper..