TRIPLE TROUBLE Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 4.13 p.m. on 20th June, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that they had observed red flares coming from a fishing boat about two-and-a-half miles out. At 4.25 the life-boat, The Chieftain was launched on the ebbing tide. There was a fresh westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The fishing boat Violet Sinclair was found, with her engine broken down. A rope had fouled her propeller and she was dragging her anchor. The life-boat towed her back to harbour and returned to the life-boat station at 5.30 p.m..