Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.53 p.m.

on 9th July, 1967, it was reported that a soldier had been reported washed out to sea between Linney Head and Trains Lake sands. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was launched at 3.15 in a gentle breeze and a heavy ground swell. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat proceeded to the area andsearched but nothing was found. A helicopter which had been called indicated that a diver who had been dropped was in difficulties on the rocks. He was unable to help himself and he was clinging to a rock. The coxswain manoeuvred the lifeboat in shore as close as possible to the rocks. A member of the life-boat crew swam in with a line and breeches buoy.

They were both hauled on board the lifeboat and the diver was then winched up to the helicopter. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.30..