MOTOR BOAT'S CREW BURN RAGS AS SIGNALS Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 5th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting in Freshwater West Bay and was flashing a torch. There was a gentle westerly breeze with a slight sea. At 10.37 the life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was launched on the ebbing tide. On reaching the position given she found the 32-foot motor boat Maid of Linney drifting near Brimstone Rocks, off Linney Head, as her engine had broken down. The motor boat's crew of two had been burning rags soaked in paraffin to attract attention.

The life-boat took her in tow and brought her to Angle Bay. The life-boat reached her station at 12.45..