Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 3.45 p.m. on 6th June, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been received from a boat two miles north west of Barmouth. At 4.3 the lifeboat The Chieftain was launched. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the motor cruiser Tricia two and a half miles west north west of Barmouth. Her engine had failed and she was drifting out to sea. There were four adults and a child on board. The life-boat took the Tricia in tow to Barmouth, and returned to her station at 5.35..