Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 8.39 on the evening of the 24th of July, 1953, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that two people were stranded on Puffin Island and were waving for help.

As the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put out, the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 8.55 in a rough sea and with a strong south-westerly wind blowing. She found that the stranded people had no food or water. The life-boatmen gave them rum, soup and biscuits, rescued them and took them to Beau- maris, arriving at 9.20.—Rewards, £9 13s..