STEAMER PASSENGER SPOTS FLARES Rhyl, Flintshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a passenger on board the steamer St. Tudno of Liverpool had reported seeing red flares six to seven miles north-west of the H.E. 2 buoy in the estuary of the river Dee. The lifeboat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 7.38 in a gentle southwesterly wind and a slight sea. It was half an hour before high water. The life-boat carried out a search for some time without success, and the coxswain reported that a pilot vessel, which had also been searching, had seen nothing. The search was continued by the life-boat, and at 8.47 the coxswain reported that a red flare had been seen three miles south-west of the Bar lightvessel. When the life-boat reached the position a rubber raft was found with two men on board. They were the crew of the ketch Hawa-Dilli of Liverpool, which had sprung a leak and sunk off Orme's Head. The two men had used all their seven flares and had been adrift for over five hours.

They were taken on board the life-boat, which reached her station at 11.23.

The two men went to hospital, but were discharged, and members of the Rhyl ladies' life-boat guild arranged transport to Liverpool for them. The men made a gift to the branch funds..