Barmouth, Merionethshire.—Shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1951, the sailing boat Dorothy was seen to cap- size one and a half miles off Cric- cieth. She belonged to the Morfa Bychan Public Schools Camp, and was manned by an officer and eight boys.

The Pwllheli life-boat station was the nearest, but owing to the low tide the life-boat was unable to launch, and the Barmouth life-boat, The Chieftain, was called out. She left at 3.40 in a rough sea with a strong south-south- westerly breeze blowing, and reached the scene of the capsize at 5.25. She 'searched for hours, but found no one and returned to her station again at 10.30 that night. Four of the boys had been rescued by other boats, but the officer and the other four boys were drowned.—Rewards, £14 2s. Qd..