MOTOR FISHING VESSEL TOWED IN GALE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 8.40 on the evening of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the Penmon coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v.

Phoenix, of Caernarvon, had been sighted one and a half miles south-east of Puffin Island and was flashing SOS signals. The life-boat Field-Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 9.5 p.m. in gale force winds and very rough seas and located the casualty a mile and a half north-east of Puffin Island. The casualty was taken in tow and secured to Beaumaris pier and the crew of five landed. The life-boat was moored alongside the lee of the pier at 11.35 to await rehousing when the weather had moderated..