SAW RED FLARE Rhyl, Flintshire. At 4.20 p.m. on nth October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Little Orme had sighted a red flare near the river Clwyd. The sea was moderate with a heavy swell and it was 11 hours past high water when, at 4.35, the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched into a fresh north-westerly breeze. On arrival alongside the Little Orme the life-boat crew were told that the fishing vessel Seawitch had engine trouble.

There were six people in the Seawitch.

Five were put aboard the life-boat while one of the life-boat crew went aboard the Seawitch to help her skipper. She was then towed to harbour. A donation was made to the crew's welfare fund..