The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1953, the coastguard tele- phoned that the tanker Alva Bay, of London, which was .one mile south-east of Mumbles Head, had reported that she had a very sick man on board. No other boat was available, so at 3.17 the life-boat William Gammon—Man- chester and District XXX was launched in a swell and with a moderate north- westerly breeze blowing. She took a doctor to the vessel, but the man was too ill to be taken ashore. The doctor stayed with him for half an hour, then re-embarked in the life-boat, which arrived back at her station at 4.51.—Rewards, £10 8s..