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Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. —• At 10.44 in the morning of the 15th of September, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel in Penrhyn Bay was driving ashore, and the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was launched at half past eleven. A north-westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea. The life- boat found the fishing boat Yap, of Conway, three miles off the Little Orme, escorted her through the heavy seas to the Menai Straits and then returned to her station, arriving at half past three that afternoon.—Re- wards, £21 2*. 6d..