Rhyl, Flintshire. —At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1949, the owner of the local fishing vessel Osprey, reported that she was aground in the surf half a mile north of the entrance to Foryd Harbour. It could be seen that she had fouled her pro- peller with a net and was in a dangerous position. The life-boat The Gordon Warren was launched at 3.20. It was then low water. A moderate west- north-west breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat anchored close by the Osprey while the two men on board her cleared the propeller.

About an hour and a half later the fishing vessel refloated, and the life- boat towed her to deep water. She then went on her way, and the life-boat arrived back at her station at 7.15 that evening.—Rewards, £12 2s. 6d..