At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken by a sudden rising of the wind blowing from the west, which nearly caused the swamping of their boat. They fortunately had a bucket in the boat and were able to keep her afloat until help reached them.

The Life-boat Theodore Price was launched very promptly and the men were rescued, their boat being towed in nearly full of water. In the freshening wind the sea became very rough, but the Life-boat behaved splendidly..