FIVE PEOPLE TREATED FOR EXPOSURE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 10.50 on the night of Sunday the 14th July, 1963, the Mersey Docks Harbour Board informed the coxswain that a French trawler had taken a disabled yacht in tow and asked if the Moelfre life-boat would take over the tow. There was a strong gale from the south-south-west with a very rough sea. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at eleven o'clock on an ebbing tide. The life-boat came up with the two vessels in Moelfre bay, and as the people on board the yacht were in no condition to make fast the ropes, two members of the life-boat crew boarded the yacht.

The five people on board the yacht were transferred to the life-boat and treated for exposure. The yacht was towed to shelter in Moelfre bay, but the weather was too rough to return to the slipway.

The life-boat waited at anchor until 3.0 a.m. and then towed the yacht to safety at Beaumaris, where the survivors were landed. The life-boat returned to her station at eight o'clock..