LIFE-BOAT RECOVERS DEAD BODY Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 3.20 p.m. on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had received an urgent message from the Commandant of the Boys Brigade camp, who was half a mile west of Criccieth, concerning one of the members in a bathing party at the Dywfor Estuary, who was missing and would require help. The life-boat Robert Lindsay was launched at 3.45 in a light north-westerly breeze and a calm sea.

It was an hour before low water. The area was searched and a body was found floating in the sea. It was recovered with a boat hook. The life-boat had the station honorary medical adviser and a police constable on board who applied artificial respiration, but unfortunately it was too late. The life-boat returned to her station at half past five. The parents of the dead boy made a donation to the Institution's funds..