The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 9.16 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, red rockets were seen, fired from a boat in Oxwich Bay. At 9.30 the life-boat William Gammon - Manchester and District XXX was launched in a moderate south-westerly wind and a moderate sea. It was high water. The life-boat found the ketch Armorel of Ramsgate and learnt that a dinghy with three members of the crew of the Armorel had left for the shore, but had drifted out to sea. The men had shouted that the dinghy was sinking.

The life-boat carried out a search together with the Swansea pilot cutter and the motor fishing vessel Katie Ann, but nothing was found. The life-boat then returned to the Amorel to try to persuade the owner's wife and her two children to come to Swansea, but she refused to leave the area until 4.55 a.m. when the life-boat returned to her station with the Amorel in tow, arriving at 6 a.m. The life-boat resumed the search with the IRB, the pilot cutter and a helicopter, but found nothing and finally reached her station at 11.30 a.m.

The relatives of one of the men who died gave donations to the RNLI instead of buying flowers to his memory..