At 9.35 p.m. on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sloop anchored near Penman point was being buffeted by gale force winds and that anxiety was felt for her safety in the fading light. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 9.45 in a south westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide was flooding.

The life-boat found the yacht Perichole with two people on board. The life-boat took her in tow to Beaumaris pier and returned to her station at 11.30. Owing to weather conditions she could not be rehoused until 4th September..