DOCTOR TAKEN TO OWNER OF YACHT Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.15 on the morning of the 9th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yachtsman on board the yacht Prelude had reported by radio-telephone that the owner of the yacht had collapsed and needed a doctor immediately.

With the help of the police a doctor was found, and as soon as he arrived at the boathouse the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 11,50 with a policeman also on board. There was a variable wind and a smooth sea, and it was two hours after low water. The rife-boat made for the position of the yacht, which was eight miles north-east of Moelfre Island. A helicopter reached the yacht first and found that the man had died. His body was hauled up into the helicopter, and as the second man was unable to handle the yacht on his own, two of the life-boat crew were put aboard and the life-boat towed the Prelude to Beaumaris, having first put the doctor and the policeman ashore at Moelfre. The life-boat left Beaumaris at 4.40 and reached her station at 6.30..