Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 2.30 p.m. on 25th May, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that a man on an inflatable air bed had drifted away from Clarach beach and was now a mile offshore. At 2.45 inshore rescue boat no.

19 was launched in a fresh north-easterly breeze and choppy sea. It was low water.

The inshore rescue boat rescued the man and took him and the air bed to Clarach beach, returning to her station at 3.20..