ESCORTED VESSELS Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 7.45 p.m.

on 28th July, 1965, the honorary secretary was notified by a shipping agency that the s.s. Basildon of London had broken down six miles south of St.

Annes Head. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was launched at 8.7 in a strong west-southwesterly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. When the life-boat arrived a tug was already on the scene and the coxswain was requested to stand by while a tow line was connected. The life-boat returned to her station at 11.59 after escorting the vessels to Milford Haven..