Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.50 on the morning of the 10th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen about three miles west-by-north of Rhossilli Head. The position of the flare was later confirmed, and it was learnt that two fishing vessels had been seen earlier in approximately the same position. A gentle south-easterly wind was blowing with a moderate sea. At 3.5 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on the flood tide. A flare was seen to the west of Helwick, and eventually the life-boat went alongside the Lowestoft trawler Helping Hand.

The trawler had been disabled whenher trawl had fouled her propeller. The life-boat put two tow ropes aboard the Helping Hand, but these soon parted.

A hawser was then passed from the Helping Hand, and the life-boat was able to tow her to shallow water off Tenby harbour, where she was beached.

The life-boat reached her station at 10.10..