TOW FOR VESSEL WITH TWENTY PASSENGERS Barmouth, Merionethshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Welsh Girl, which had a crew of two and twenty passengers on board, appeared to be drifting out to sea, and half an hour later he gave the vessel's position as two miles west of the coastguard station. At 6.35 the life-boat The Chieftain was launched and made for the Welsh Girl in a strong easterly breeze, a choppy sea and an ebbing tide.

She found that the vessel had run out of fuel and had parted her anchor cable.

She took the passengers aboard, towed the Welsh Girl to Barmouth and reached her station again at 8.15..