RESERVE LIFE-BOAT TOWED TO BANGOR Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 2.10 on the morning of Monday the 8th of July, 1963, the Penmor coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the reserve life-boat Frank and William Gates, on passage from Hoylake to Pwllheli, had broken down two miles west-southwest of Rhyl West buoy. There was a light north-westerly wind with a choppy sea. The life-boat Field-Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 2.45 on an ebb tide and came up with the reserve boat at 4.15. The reserve life-boat was towed to Beaumaris by 7.30 and the District Engineer was informed of the breakdown. He instructed the Beaumaris life-boat to tow the Frank and William Oates to a boatyard at Bangor.

The life-boats left Beaumaris at 9.30, and after towing the reserve life-boat to Bangor the Field Marshal and Mrs.

Smuts returned to her station, arriving at half past eleven..