Early in the morning of the 2nd May, during a W.S.W. gale, a small ketch was observed at anchor close to a lee shore in Church Bay, and at 10 o'clock she hoisted a signal of distress. A steamer, making for Holyhead, was seen proceeding to her with the object of towing her out of danger, but they were not successful in getting a hawser to the ketch, and as the distress signal remained flying, the Coxswain decided to launch the No. 2 Life-boat Joseph Whilworth. On reaching the ketch, which was the Marjorie, of Milford, the Master stated he did not wish to leave his vessel should it be possible to save her; the Life-boat therefore conveyed a hawger to the steamer, and six Life-boat men having been placed on board the ketch to weigh the anchor, she was towed into Holyhead Harbour..