TWO CAME BACK Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 12.39 p.m. on ist September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Black Rock sands and both occupants were in the sea. There was a moderate easterly breeze with a choppy sea. It was three hours before high water.

The life-boat Sarah Ann Austin, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 12.50. The dinghy was righted and towed back to Criccieth. Her crew of two were put aboard the life-boat and given medical attention as both were thoroughly exhausted. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30..