GALE WARNING GIVEN New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.45 a.m. on yth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties in very rough seas on the New Quay side of Ynys Lochtyn.

The tide was at low water. Gale warning cones had been hoisted although the westerly breeze was still moderate. The life-boat St. Albans was launched at n.6.

She reached the motor boat Gwylan, which had been making no headway whatsoever against the wind—now at gale force—at 11.43. She took the vessel, with one man on board, in tow and reached the harbour at 12.30 p.m..