Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a yacht was dragging her anchors and was likely to strike the back of the old pier at any moment. This was con- firmed soon afterwards by the coast- guard. An east-south-easterly gale was blowing, and the sea was very rough.

At 1.30 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on a flooding tide.

There was one man on board the yacht, and he was preparing to jump into the water as the back of the pier was only about twenty yards away. The life- boat approached the yacht, the Marjorie Caw of Littlehampton, anchored and then dropped down on to her, and a rope was passed. The Marjorie Caw was towed into Tenby roads and as soon as there was enough water brought into the harbour. The life-boat reached her station at 3.30..