TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, and Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the Llandudno coastguard reported that a small motor boat, which had six yachts in tow, was making no headway in a choppy sea about three miles west of the west look-out at Great Orme's Head.

At 1.30 the Llandudno life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched. There was a wind of near gale force blowing from the east-south-east, the sea was moderate, and the tide was half ebb. The Penmon coastguard had notified the Beaumaris life-boat station, and at 1.55 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs Smuts was also launched. The Llandudno life-boat came up with the motor boat and the yachts at 2.20 and took them all in tow. She towed them to Deganwy, with the Beaumaris lifeboat standing by, and arrived back at her station at 8.40. The Beaumaris lifeboat reached her station at five o'clock.

Soon after the Llandudno life-boat had come ashore the local police reported that a man was trapped by the tide on the rocks below Little Orme.

The man had attracted attention by lighting fires. At nine o'clock the lifeboat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest put to sea again, with a rowing boat in tow. She reached the man twentyfive minutes later. The wind had backed to the east, and there were heavy rain showers and a flooding tide. The coxswain brought the life-boat as close to the rocks as he could, and two members of his crew took the rowing boat through a heavy swell to the trapped man. At the first attempt the man was rescued, and he was transferred to the life-boat, which returned to her station, arriving at 10.10..