Rhyl, Flintshire - At 6.38 p.m. on 19th July, 1966, the honorary secretary of the ladies' life-boat guild reported that a red flare had been fired from a fishing boat half a mile to seaward of the boathouse.

The life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.5 in a gentle north-north-westerly wind and a smooth sea. It was low water. She went alongside the m.f.v. Seawitch and took off a sick man, together with nine other passengers who asked to be taken ashore.

All were landed on the beach. The patient was taken to hospital and was later discharged The life-boat returned to her station at 7.45..