Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 4.7 in the after- noon, on the 28th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a report received from a holiday camp at Towyn that three men and boys in a rubber dinghy needed help off the camp. At 4.30 the life-boat Joseph Braithzvaite, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in heavy surf with a moderate south-westerly gale blowing. She found the dinghy empty opposite the life-boat house, and picked it up.

Then she searched, unsuccessfully, for the men and boys. They were eventu- ally reported to have swum ashore, so the life-boat was recalled to her station. She arrived at 5.50 that evening.—Rewards, £10 10s..