Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 p.m.

on 25th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Irish ship River Avoca required a doctor to attend and bring ashore a member of the crew suffering from severe and continuous stomach pains and vomiting. The life-boat St.

Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 10.54 in a moderate southerly breeze and a slight swell. It was high water. She went to a point four and a half miles west of South Stack lighthouse, where the sick man was transferred by stretcher to the life-boat. He was landed at Pelham steps and taken to hospital by ambulance. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.9 a.m..