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SICK RADIO OPERATOR BROUGHT ASHORE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1963, Holyhead coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Vives of London was near the breakwater end and needed help. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched in a light wind and a slight sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the Vives at 4.30 half a mile off the breakwater end and discovered that the radio operator needed medical attention. He was taken on board the life-boat, which then made for Mackenzie pier. She was met there by a doctor, who treated the sick man before he was put into an ambulance and taken to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at 5.43..