Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.28 p.m.

on 29th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties twenty miles south south west of St. Ann's head. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was launched at 3 o'clock.

It was low water. The life-boat came up with the yacht Westwinds at 6.20.

There were four people on board.

Her rudder was defective and her engine had broken down. The tanker Esso Glasgow of London was standing by. The life-boat took the yacht in tow to Angle and returned to her station at 10 o'clock..