Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 27th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had capsized in Lligwy Bay. At 12.25 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched. It was high water and there was a rough sea with a near gale from the south-south-west.

The life-boat made for a position where a helicopter could be seen winching men from a yacht. The yacht was taken in tow by the life-boat and beached at Moelfre. A message was then received from the shore that a boat was in difficulties in Red Wharf Bay. The life- boat and a helicopter made a thorough search of the area, but it was learnt that the boat had reached the shore safely.

The life-boat then made for Bull Bay, where a man had been reported clinging to the rocks surrounded by the sea.

When she reached the scene, a coast- guardsman on shore told the coxswain that the man had been taken off by a local boat. The life-boat finally reached her station at five o'clock..