Taking water ON SUNDAY, JULY 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Horton and Port Eynon ILB station that red flares had been reported off Oxwich Point, and at 2007 the ILB was launched and set course at full speed for the position indicated.

Visibility was good, there was a moderate breeze, the sea was rough and the tide was on the turn when, at 2012, the ILB came up with the casualty, a dinghy with five people on board. The dinghy was rapidly taking water and her occupants were quickly transferred to the ILB which returned to her station with the dinghy in tow, arriving at 2035.

She was rehoused at 2050..