SHEERING BADLY Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.20 p.m. on 3rd May, 1964, the assistant secretary asked the second coxswain, in the absence of the coxswain, to launch the life-boat The Lilly Wainwright to go to the assistance of a motor yacht in difficulties in Conway Bay. The life-boat launched at 6.34 in a westerly gale and a very rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The yacht Almeria with a crew of four was in about two fathoms of water in a heavy breaking sea, with two anchors and chains out ahead, and a helicopter was standing by. One of the life-boat crew went aboard to help in making fast a towline and lifting or slipping the anchors. The Almeria was taken up channel to Conway but because she was sheering badly she was brought up alongside the life-boat.

As the yacht was being fastened to a mooring buoy, it was learnt that there was a sick woman on board. The life-boat brought a doctor from Conway who, after attending to the woman, was landed ashore again. The life-boat reached her station at 10.43. The owner of the yacht made a gift to the life-boat crew..