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Welsh Coxswain's Third Medal

Coxswain James Watkins, of Angle, Pembrokeshire, who won the silver medal in 1929 and the bronze medal in 1943, has now won the bronze medal for the second time for rescuing the crew of nine men, of South Shields, from the ex-German steamer "Walter L. M. Russ", which went ashore on Grassholm Island on July i6th. She was under water, with two men on the funnel-ladder, one in the main top and the rest clinging to the rocks. Coxswain Watkins is 67..