Holyhead, Anglesey - At 1.25 p.m.

2nd September, 1968, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the motor boat Valkyrie had broken down 100 yards off shore and required assistance. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat St Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched. The tide was flooding. At 2.35 the honorary secretary received a further message from the coastguard informing him that the life-boat with the motor boat in tow was in difficulties near the rocks at Forth Ruffydd. The life-boat took two people off the motor boat, slipped her tow, and returned to her station at 3.37..