Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 11.20 on the morning of the 9th July, 1961, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen to capsize about a mile east of the Little Orme and that two men were clinging to it.

A moderate west-north-westerly wind was blowing with a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. At 11.40 the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched. On reaching the position, the life-boat found a small boat with an outboard motor trying to tow the dinghy. This boat had picked up those on board the dinghy as well as the crew of two of another dinghy, which had capsized a mile to the north. The life- boat crew were asked to recover the second dinghy. They did so and towed the dinghy to Rhos-on-Sea. The life- boat reached her station at 2.20..