Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 9.37 p.m. on 9th April, 1967, news was received that the motor fishing vessel Gay Star had requested assistance eight miles north west of Strumbie head. Apparently her engine had failed. She carried a crew of three. The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched at 10 o'clock in a moderate north east wind two hours after high water. The casualty was reached in a north north easterly gale and a very rough sea at 12.55 a-rn- on I0tn April, 1967. At 1.25 a line had been secured and the vessel was taken in tow. Unfortunately, owing to extensive chafing aboard the Gay Star, the tow-line parted at 3.12 and again at 5.10. The coxswain then secured the casualty with the life-boat's manilla mooring line in addition to the usual nylon rope and the life-boat and tow reached harbour at 8.2..