COCKLE-GATHERERS IN PERIL Beaumaris, Anglesey.—Early in the morning of the 22nd of September, 1947, two men put out in a rowing boat to gather cockles, but a strong south- west wind blew up and at one o'clock in the afternoon the men were seen to be in difficulties on the Lavan Bank.

The motor life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 1.45 and, in a rough sea, rescued the two men who were nearly exhausted. She landed them and their boat at Gallows Point, and, owing to the weather, remained there herself until the fol- lowing day, arriving back at her station at 2.45 that afternoon.—Re- wards £7 18s. 6d..