The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.35 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1952, a resident of Overton telephoned that a fishing boat had fired two red rockets and that her crew ap- peared to be trying to hold her on to Port Eynon Buoy. At 10.50 the life- boat William Gammon, Manchester and District XXX, was launched in a rough sea, with a strong south-easterly breeze blowing. She found the motor fishing boat Deo Gratias, of Ilfracombe, with the Ilfracombe life-boat coxswain and two others on board, near the buoy.

Their engine had broken down, but they repaired it, and the life-boat escorted her to Swansea, arriving at one o'clock in the afternoon. As the weather was too bad for her to be rehoused the life-boat remained there until three o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th, when she left for her station.

When she reached Swansea Bay she came up with the motor boat Bella Betty, which had broken down. The life-boat towed her to Swansea Har- bour and then returned to her station, arriving at 4.15.—Rewards for the two services, £20 15*. 6d..