FAMILY PARTY ADRIFT IN A GALE Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—On the morning of the 15th of November, 1947, a north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and at 10.30 the coastguard reported a vessel drifting.

At 10.45 the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was launched.

.She found a converted fishing vessel, The Witch, three miles out of Abergele, with the owner, his wife, their two children, and two young men on board.

Their engines had broken down and they had drifted all the previous night.

The owner asked for a tow but this was impossible in the heavy seas. With great difficulty he, his wife and children were taken into the life-boat, but the two young men decided to stay in The Witch and try to reach Llanddulas.

The life-boat arrived at her station at 2.30 p.m. The two young men later swam ashore, and The Witch herself was driven ashore at Abergele and wrecked.—Rewards, £21 7s. Qd..