Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 1.0 on the after- noon of the 19th of August, 1952, a message was received that the sailing yacht Clytie had gone ashore five hundred yards to the west of the river Clwyd. The owner was advised to put ashore three children who were on board, and he said he would stay in the yacht and try to refloat her later.

He asked if the life-boat would stand by, and at 8.0 in the evening, when the tide was approaching the yacht, the life-boatmen assembled. The Clytie was in a dangerous position and the weather was worsening. She was heavily pounded, and at 8.45 the owner and a man helping him appeared to make a distress signal. At 9.5 the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched in a rough sea and moderate north-north-east breeze, but the two men jumped overboard from the yacht and swam ashore. The life-boat took the Clytie in tow, secured her in Voryd Harbour at 11.30 that night, and remained there. The life-boat return- ed to her station the next day, reaching Rhyl again at 2.30 in the afternoon.— Rewards, £18 10s..