LIFE-BOAT CHECKS SAFETY OF YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At ten to nine on the evening of Tuesday the 20th August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the Rhyl coastguard had a small yacht under observation.

The crew of two men and a boy appeared to be having difficulty starting the yacht's engine. At 9.30 p.m. the honorary secretary decided to launch the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest. After the yacht had proceeded in a westerly direction, the coastguard had lost sight of the vessel in the gathering darkness. After a thorough but fruitless search the life-boat returned to Llandudno Bay for further information, where the coxswain was told that a small yacht had made the bay under outboard motor. On closing with the yacht Susan the coxswain was told the crew had abandoned their intention of rounding the head, and after seeing them suitably anchored the life-boat returned to her station at 11.45 p.m. The weather had been cloudy with a moderate sea and a moderate breeze from the west..