Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.40 in the morning on the 1 st of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned a report received from Seaforth Radio that a motor vessel was disabled and drifting three miles north of Skerries. She was the Barrule, of Castletown, laden with a cargo of stone and bound for Widnes.

At 5.50 the life-boat St. Cybi, Civil Service No. 9, was launched in smooth sea, with a light westerly wind blow- ing. She found the motor vessel and reported by wireless at 10.5 that she was then standing by her ten miles north-east-by-east of Skerries, and was staying until a tug came. Just before four in the afternoon a tug took the Barrule in tow, and the life- boat then made for her station, getting there at 5.50—Rewards, £23 15*..