HELICOPTER RESCUE FROM SAILING BOAT Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.55 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were clinging to an overturned sailing boat three miles north-east of the Breakwater light.

There was a moderate east-northeasterly breeze with a choppy sea. It was high water. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 7.8 and made for the position given. A helicopter rescued the two people clinging to the boat, and the life-boat towed their boat back to Holyhead. A donation was made to the station branch funds..