Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 5.55 on the even- ing of the 4th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a motor launch was flying distress signals off the Point of Air lighthouse, and at 6.30 the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched. She made for the position in a slight sea and light south-westerly breeze, and found the three-ton motor launch Alwena,.

with two men over seventy on board, two miles north-west of Mostyn Har- bour. Her engine had broken down and she was drifting towards the Hoyle banks. The life-boat towed her to Mostyn and returned to Voryd, arriving at midnight. The life-boat was taken back to her station on the; 6th.—Rewards, £28 9*..