Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 7.45 on the morning of the 29th of Sep- tember, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares three hundred yards off Porth Nant Quarry.

At 8.10 the life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched. The tide was flooding, the sea was rough and a strong breeze was blowing from the north- west. The life-boat found the barge Ellendale, with a crew of two, anchored but rolling heavily in the backwash from the cliffs. She went alongside twice and rescued the men, who had had no food for twenty-four hours. The life- boatmen gave them rum and soup and landed them at their station at 9.40.

The rescued men expressed their appre- ciation.—Rewards, £7 9*..