The Mumbles, Glamorganshire-At 6.40 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down and was drifting out to sea on the ebb tide. At 6.47 the IRB launched in a gentle easterly breeze and moderate sea. The IRB took the motor boat with three people on board in tow, and returned to her station, which was reached at 745-.