Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 23rd October, 1961, Anglesey radio station informed the honorary secretary that the cargo on board the motor vessel Eemshorn of Delfzijl had shifted and that the vessel was listing twenty-one miles north-east of Moelfre light. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at one o'clock in a southerly gale and a very rough sea.

It was two hours after high water. The life-boat made for the position indica- ted, and the master of the Eemshorn asked her to stand by. The coxswain decided to wait in the lee of Point Lynas until the life-boat was needed. At 6.29 the master reported that he no longer required the life-boat to stand by, as his vessel was out of danger, and the life- boat returned to her station arriving at seven o'clock..