LIFE-RAFT RESCUE At 8.50 a.m. on 16th January, 1971, the honorary secretary at Beaumaris, Anglesey, learnt that a distress signal had been sighted from the dredger Hoverinsham II of Hull a quarter of a mile below Penmon lookout.

The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 9 a.m., and she came up with the dredger three quarters of a mile inside Puffin Sound. Four of her crew of seven were on a liferaft.

They were taken on board the life-boat.

A line was secured and an attempt was made to tow the dredger into shallow water. As the dredger started listing and it became apparent that she was capsizing the coxswain slipped the tow and the three remaining crewmen weretaken on board the life-boat. The seven men were landed at Beaumaris, and the life-boat returned to her station at 11.30..