Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 12.35 in the early morning, on the llthof January, 1951, the coastguard re- ported that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, about five miles north-east of Port Nevin, had a heavy list and needed help. At 1.46 the life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched in a rough sea with a south-westerly gale blowing.

She found the Cornel two miles north- west of Trevor Point laden with carbide. At the request of her master, the life-boat piloted her to a safe anchorage half a mile south-south-east of the life-boat station and returned to Porthdinllaen, arriving at 3.30.—Re- wards, £10 6s..