RED FLARES SEEN The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 2.17 a.m. on 2nd March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Rhosilly Point. There was a moderate southeasterly breeze with a corresponding sea, and it was low water. The life-boat Swny- Mor (Civil Service No. 6), on temporary duty at the station, launched at 2.46 a.m.

and at 5.20 reached the motor fishing vessel Morning Star whose engine had broken down. A line was made fast but when the life-boat tried to tow the vessel clear of the Helwick Sands the line parted.

The crew of three were taken off and the help of a tug was requested. At 10.48 the tug Clyneforth arrived and towed the fishing vessel to Swansea escorted by the lifeboat, which arrived back at her station at 2 p.m..