Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 7.30 p.m.

on 2nd July, 1967, it was learnt that a sloop was in difficulties about one mile east of Puffin Island. In the same area a cabin cruiser was also apparently in trouble. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 7.55 in a moderate west south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Typhoon with three people on board and took her in tow. She had run out of fuel. An exnaval pinnace from Conway had reached the sloop and taken her in tow. The lifeboat took the cabin cruiser in tow to Menai Bridge and after a member of the life-boat crew had cleared an air lock in the cabin cruiser's fuel system, the lifeboat returned to her station and was rehoused at 10.45..