Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 8.50 on the evening of the 25th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties in Penmon Sound. The two people on board could be heard shouting for help.

At 9.5 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts left her moorings in a moderate south-south-westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was two hours after high water. Before the life-boat reached the position a large yacht sighted the casualty, which was the yacht Pandora, and took her in tow. The life-boat later took over the tow and beached the yacht, which had engine trouble, at Gallows Point. The life-boat reached her station at eleven o'clock..