EIGHT MEN TAKEN OFF FISHING VESSEL Rhyl, Flintshire. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by the coastguard that the fishing vessel Welsh Lady had left early that morning with a party of eight men to fish off Colwyn Bay and had not returned. The honorary secretary went to the boathouse and was able to see the Welsh Lady sheltering off Llandulas. There was a near gale from the west-south-west with a rough sea. A message was received from the coastguard via the police that the skipper of the fishing vessel wanted the life-boat to take off his passengers. In view of the prevailing weather conditions and the rough confused sea on the harbour bar the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 5.51. She took the eight passengers on board and escorted the Welsh Lady safely into Rhyl harbour.

The life-boat finally reached her station at 8.15..