ESCORT FOR HOLED DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.27 on the morning of the 20th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was making water rapidly and needed help immediately. Her position was between the North and South Stacks, west of Holyhead. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 10.37 in a moderate to fresh breeze and a moderate sea. The tide was half ebb.

The life-boat reached the motor vessel Aldebaran of Groningen at eleven o'clock. The vessel had developed a list and the life-boat escorted her into the inner harbour at Holyhead. The lifeboat then stood by while the Anglesey fire service put pumps on board the motor vessel and pumped out the water.

The life-boat returned to her station at 11.40. Later, when the motor vessel was in dry dock at Holyhead, it was learnt that she had struck a rock and that this had caused the leak..