MOTOR LAUNCH TAKEN IN TOW Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had broken down and was drifting out to sea a mile east-by-south of Penmon look-out. A strong west-south-west wind was blowing with a rough sea. At 4.45 the lifeboat Field Marshal and Mrs Smuts was launched on an ebbing tide. She came up with the launch Sea Pegasus, which had a crew of four, off Puffin Island, and took her in tow, as her engine was still out of action, to Menai Bridge, where she was moored. A helicopter which had been alerted hovered over the Sea Pegasus until the life-boat had successfully taken her in tow. The lifeboat reached her station at 7.30 and remained at her moorings until she was rehoused the next day..