FISHING VESSEL SAVED Rhyl, Flintshire. At 11.20 a.m. on i6th April, 1965, the coxswain observed two flares fired from the motor fishing vessel Sultan in a position two miles east by north of Rhyl. He immediately informed the coastguard and the honorary secretary and at 11.30 the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched.

There was a moderate north-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was high water. The Sultan was drifting ashore and was in danger of being driven against the groynes. The life-boat passed a line to the Sultan, which had a crew of four, and towed her clear of the breakers and into the harbour. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.30 p.m. The owner and skipper of the Sultan expressed his gratitude for the services of the life-boat and said that had the life-boat arrived later than she did the Sultan would have been smashed against the groynes..