FLARES NEAR ISLAND At 8.24 p.m. on i2th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that flares had been seen between Puffin Island and Great Orme Head. It was low water with a smooth sea and light airs. At 8.40 the life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. At 8.54 Anglesey radio station informed the lifeboat that the motor fishing vessel Dunaine had located the motor launch Jean, with a crew of seven. She was towed by the life-boat to Beaumaris and soon after midnight the life-boat returned to her station..