SIX RESCUED FROM CABIN CRUISER IN NEAR GALE The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 28th October, 1962, a message was received from the coastguard that a cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties north-west of Port Talbot pier. A near gale was blowing from the north-west and there was a rough sea. At 12.55 the life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at low water. She found the motor cruiser Larkspur out of control with her engine broken down being buffeted badly and drifting slowly ashore. She was also making a great deal of water and in danger of foundering.

The life-boat rescued six people, who were on board the Larkspur, and then took her in tow to Swansea. After landing the survivors, the life-boat returned to her station at four o'clock..