Beaumaris, Anglesey. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd August, 1961, a cabin cruiser was seen to have tried unsuccessfully to pick up a moor- ing buoy at Friar's Bay, Beaumaris. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a very rough sea. The tide had begun to ebb. At 5.25 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched.

She found the yacht Rake's Retreat with her engine broken down and her anchor dragging. She took her in tow and brought her to a safe anchorage at Menai Bridge, reaching her station at 8.45. The Rake's Retreat is owned by Mr. Hughie Green, the television celebrity, who was on board at the time..