Holyhead, and Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary at Holyhead that the no. 2 pilot boat, which had gone to the Skerries Rock with fifteen children and seven adults on board for a picnic, was long overdue.

At 8.37 the Holyhead life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched in a moderate sea with a strong south- westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide.

The weather was dull and misty. The life-boat carried out a search and eventually found the boat with a broken fuel pipe five miles north-west of the Holyhead breakwater. The children were transferred to the life-boat, which then took the pilot boat in tow to Holy- head, arriving at 5.25. The Moelfre life-boat Watkin Williams was also launched at 12.25 to help in the search, and she returned to her station at 6.45.

Rewards to the crew : Holyhead, £17 9s. ; Moelfre, £12 10s. Rewards to the helpers on shore : Holyhead, £6 ; Moelfre, £3 12s..