Holyhead, Anglesey - At 5.35 a.m.

on 17th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sick man aboard the m.f.v. Deeside required hospital treatment. The lifeboat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 6.11. It was shortly after low water. The life-boat came up with the fishing vessel one mile north of the Holyhead breakwater and the sick man was taken aboard. He was landed at Holyhead where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 7 o'clock..