TOW TAKEN OVER FROM R.A.S.C.

LAUNCH Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 28th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the yacht Scylla of Beaumaris was being towed by the R.A.S.C. launch Maglee and that the help of the life-boat was needed.

The position of the two boats was twelve miles north-east of Porthdinllaen Point. The life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.10 in a gentle to moderate northerly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was half flood.

When the life-boat came alongside the two boats the coxswain asked the skipper of the Maglee what was wrong with the yacht and was told that the man aboard her did not know much about sailing a yacht. The coxswain was unable to obtain any satisfactory answer from the man and decided to take over the towing of the Scylla from the Army launch. The yacht was towed to Caernarvon dock, which was reached at 6.30, and the life-boat arrived at her station at 9.45. It was later learnt that the man on board the yacht was not her owner..