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Casquet

YACHT TOWED AFTER ANCHOR CHAIN CLEARED Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.45 on the evening of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Penmon informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified yacht was anchored about one mile south-by-east of the coastguard lookout and needed help. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 8.14 in a south-westerly gale and a rough sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat reached the yacht Casquet at 8.40 and found that her anchor chain was jammed in the hawse-pipe and that she was anchored in a dangerous position. With some difficulty the life-boat crew cleared the pipe by using the life-boat's power winch and a veering line. The yacht, which had a crew of two, was then taken in tow and secured to a mooring at Menai bridge. The life-boat reached her station at 9.50 but could not be rehoused until the 20th June..