Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 10.35 p.m.

on 13th November, 1969, news was received that red flares had been sighted by the army authorities off St. Govan's head in the Bullslaughter bay area. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was launched at 10.57 in a moderate south easterly wind. It was two hours after high water. She came up with the fishing boat Thomas Sinclair, with the owner aboard, at 12.5 a.m.

on 14th November close to Crow rock. Her engine had broken down.

The life-boat took the fishing boat in tow to Milford Haven, returning to her station at 3.40 a.m..