TOO LIGHTLY CLAD Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 10.30 p.m. on 2yth August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small fibreglass outboard motor dinghy had left the Warren caravan camp at 2 p.m. with four people on board to fish off the St. Tudwells islands and had not returned. The two young men and two girls aboard were only lightly clad and as the weather had deteriorated the life-boat Katherine and Virgoe Buckland was launched at 10.45.

The life-boat passed between the two islands and occasionally fired parachute flares to light up the area, but the boat was not seen. She then went on to Forth Ceriad and Cilan Head and to the approach of Forth Neigwl without success.

success.

When returning the light of a parachute flare revealed some figures on the East Island. On approaching it was found they were the four missing people. They were taken aboard the life-boat, wrapped in blankets and given hot drinks. The life-boat returned to her station at 4 a.m..