Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.50 on the evening of the 23rd May, 1961, the life- boat motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a motor launch close to the life-boat slipway appeared to be sinking and that her crew had asked for help. A light west-north-west wind was blowing with a slight sea. The motor mechanic and assistant motor mechanic at once put out in the life-boat boarding boat and found that the vessel was the Vasa with a crew of six. They landed the men, but at 8.13 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched to tow the Vasa out of the fairway. The life-boat beached her and arrived back at her station at ten o'clock..