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A Motor Launch and a Cabin Cruiser

ESCORT AND TOW FOR TWO BOATS Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At nine o'clock on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor launch with two people on board which had put out to tow in a cabin cruiser might be in difficulties due to the weather conditions.

At 9.35 the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched into a strong north-westerly wind and rough sea. It was two hours before high water.

The life-boat found the motor launch towing the cabin cruiser half a mile east of Little Orme. The life-boat escorted the two boats and then took over the tow of the cabin cruiser and returned to her station at 11.5 p.m..