With the ship just short of the bridge and making no further headway the pilots worked her across the stream over onto the Anglesey side (see picture on the left) where The Chart shows a deep pool with depths up to 34 feet at low water, and which is right out of the stream and in a bit of a counter current. They wanted to hold her here for four hours until the strength of the stream had abated. The ship being in extremis this was an emergency manoeuvre which might well have succeeded.

But again Capt Hewitt insisted that the ship be put back in the main channel .......... Minutes later the ship was ashore.

Showing the ship close to the Anglesey shore

Note 13.

I have the following (verbally) from Emrys Jones, Caernarvon Pilot, which is embedded deeply in his family's history :-

When at 0850 Capt Hewitt had the ship brought up off Pwllfanog the pilot objected strongly: "Oh no Captain, we must keep her going" But Capt Hewitt replied very firmly: "The ship goes under the bridge at 0920 hours and not one moment before." The tide turned about 0920 as the ship was passing under the bridge. Shortly afterwards with the ship rapidly losing headway, and believing his point well and truly made, the pilot implored: "Captain, we must go back", but Capt Hewitt insisted that the ship must go on. Here the Sub-Committee agreed that going back would not have been possible. Capt GD Pari-Huws: "But why ever not? It might have been a bit back-handed but both tugs were stern-on to the ship and the tidal circumstances were exactly the same as they had been in 1949."