HELP FOR YACHT AFTER TOW-ROPE PARTS St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Cergio was in tow of the French trawler Belle Garce thirteen miles west of the South Bishop. As the weather was bad, the help of the life-boat was asked for. The life-boat Swn-y-Mor (Civil Service No.

6) was launched at 3.15 in a south-southwesterly gale and a very rough sea. It was two hours before high water. The life-boat made towards the two vessels and reported seeing them off St. Ann's Head. Later a message was received that the trawler and yacht were well ahead of the life-boat in Milford Haven.

The honorary's secretary's personal experience of the haven in rough weather made him disinclined to recall the lifeboat, and in fact the towing rope eventually parted four times. On the last occasion the yacht and the trawler drifted apart and the life-boat steamed towards the yacht and took her in tow.

The yacht was eventually moored alongside a jetty in Milford Haven at 7.30.

Because of the conditions at the life-boat slipway the life-boat remained overnight and returned to her station the next day..