Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.41 p.m.

on i5th July, 1967, a message was received that the motor fishing vessel Coquetside of Conway had broken down with engine trouble eight miles west of the Skerries. At 10.53 tne life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a light south south westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was half an hour before low water.

When the life-boat was about five miles from Holyhead, the motor vessel Holospira advised the coxswain on a course to take to intercept the casualty as she and the life-boat were visible on the vessel's radar screen. On nearing the position of the fishing vessel a number of flares were fired by the life-boat and the Coquetside was eventually sighted at 12.34 a-m- on 16th July about six to eight miles north east of the Skerries. A tow line was secured and the life-boat and casualty reached the south quay at 3.30. The lifeboat returned to her station at 3.58 p.m..