ALL NIGHT SERVICE TO DUTCH COASTER Holyhead, Anglesey. At half past nine on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht in the harbour was flashing SOS signals. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 9.38 to investigate and found that the Dutch coaster Hilda, in ballast, had dragged her anchor in a full gale from the north-north-west and fouled the yacht's mooring trot. She had also got a length of chain round her screw.

The life-boat secured alongside the coaster, which later pumped water into her forward tanks to raise the stern out of the water, and the life-boat dropped astern to help clear the screw. Owing to the high wind and rough seas nothing further could be done until daybreak and the life-boat returned to a buoy outside the life-boat house at 4.5 a.m.

She returned to the coaster at 6.0 a.m.

when great care had to be exercised as the coaster had taken a list to port. By 7.15 the chain had been freed from the vessel's screw and the life-boat assisted her to an Admiralty buoy in the harbour, returning to her station at nine o'clock..