TRAPPED BY THE TIDE IN HALF A GALE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 17

TRAPPED BY THE TIDE IN HALF A GALE.

MLN RESCUED FROM SANDBANK IN NICK OF TIME. LONDON, February 2 1. A desperate struggle for two men’s lives, watched by a largo crowd of people, took place when William Griffiths and James Henry Thomas, both of Water Street, Llanelly, were trapped bv tho tide on a sandbank on Sunday evening at Llanelly. They walked along tho beach to the edge of the navigable waterway, to a point only accessible at low tide. When they started to return they found that the rid© bad completelv surrounded them, and they wero marooned on a sandbank, with a wide stretch of water between them and the beach. Their shouts were heard by T. J Bennett, M. Clement, B. J. Nurse and David Mathias, who ran to the river estuary a mile away and launched a boat. The sea had now become choppy, and half a gale bud risen, and the men found themselves unable to make any headway. Bv this time the sandbank was nearlv submerged, when three ether men— D. J. Butchers, Willie Gibbs and F. Morgan carried a boat over the embankment, and launched it in a spot wlier© they could get the assistance of the wind down to the marooned m Thev reached Griffiths and Thomas just as the sandbank became completely submerged. ” Six weeks ago a Norwegian sailor was trapped in the same spot, auu