Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat mechanic reported that the motor trawler Silver Cloud, of Abersoch, was towing to Pwllheli the yacht Runag, of Glasgow, which had gone ashore the previous night in St.

Tudwals Roads. The two vessels were seen to be one and a half miles south- west of the life-boat station but making no headway. A later report said they were anchored, but about 3.30 the Runag sailed back to St. Tudwals Roads, and anchored there. As the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put out, a message from Abersoch at 4.35 asked the life-boat to land the Runag's crew of six, who had had no food for about ten hours. The life- boat Manchester and Salford XXIX was therefore launched at 5 o'clock in a choppy sea, with a fresh easterly breeze blowing, and passed the Silver Cloud, still immobile. The crew of the Runag had already been taken off. however, so the life boat returned to the Silver Cloud, whose rudder, she discovered, had become unshipped by the tow rope while she was towing the Runag. Herer asked to be taken to Pwllheli, so the life-boat gave her crew of four food and rum and took her in tow, reaching harbour at 8.30.—Rewards, £9 17*..