Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 10.25 on the nightof the 31st of Decem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a doctor had reported that a woman on Bardsey Island was serious- ly ill. The doctor asked if the life- boat would take him to the island. At 11.47 the life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched in a choppy sea with a light northerly breeze blowing.

She took the doctor to Bardsey, where he decided that the woman should be admitted to hospital. The life-boat took her and the doctor to Porthdin- llaen, where an ambulance was wait- ing, arriving at seven o'clock on the 1st January. The woman died the next day.—Rewards, £21 11s..