Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 2.37 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that as a result of a freak storm a number of craft participating in the Conway yacht club regatta required assistance.

The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs.

Smuts was launched together with the IRB at 2.45. They reached the area after the storm had passed and most of the 18 capsized dinghies had righted themselves. The IRB gave assistance to the dinghy Wineglass 287 and one member of her crew was taken ashore in an exhausted condition. The IRB made a final sweep of the area before returningto her station at 3.30 p.m. Preparations were being made to rehouse the lifeboat when the yacht St. George, which had been dismasted in the storm, was sighted between Flagstaff quarry and Penmon point. She was taken in tow to Beaumaris pier. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 6.30, but owing to weather conditions rehousing was postponed until 12 August..