LIFE-BOAT, HELICOPTER AND MOTOR BOATS GO TO YACHT Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 3rd September, 1962, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he could see a sailing dinghy aground in Portmadoc estuary, and ten minutes later the life-boat Robert Lindsay was launched. There was a strong south-south-west breeze, the sea was rough, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the sailing dinghy Scorpion, with a crew of two, on a sandbank. Two motor boats had also put out, and a Royal Air Force helicopter, which had arrived from Valley, landed on the sandbank. The motor boats took off the dinghy's crew, and the helicopter, not being needed, returned to her base. The motor boats refloated the dinghy and towed her to Portmadoc harbour, the life-boat escorting them.

The life-boat arrived back at her station at 9.30. The crew of the Scorpion made a donation to the Institution's funds..