Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 2.10 on the morning of the 25th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about ten miles from St. Anne's Head.

A light south-west wind was blowing with a moderate but confused sea. The tide was flooding. At 2.50 the life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was launched. She found the motor vessel St. Kilda of Glasgow listing heavily, her cargo having shifted.

Six of her crew had been taken aboard the motor vessel Barry Hill, and the captain, mate and chief engineer were on board the ship's boat, which was alongside the St. Kilda. These three men were taken on board the life-boat, and then the other six members of the crew were transferred to the life-boat from the Barry Hill. The life-boat landed them at Milford Haven at ten o'clock and reached her station at 11.10.

The St. Kilda became a total wreck..