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Hazhad

HELP FROM MOTOR BOAT, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht off the Conway estuary was being kept under observation. The weather later became worse, and at two o'clock the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched in a south-westerly gale, a very rough sea and a flooding tide. The motor boat Alice also put out and was the first to reach the yacht Hazhad, which had three adults, a child and a dog on board. The yacht had broken down and the Alice passed a line to her. The motor boat kept the yacht head-on to the weather, and a helicopter remained near by until 2.50, when the life-boat reached the scene. The life-boat took the Hazhadin tow, escorted in the Alice, and put the yacht on moorings in Conway harbour. She then returned to her station, arriving at 5.45..