Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 1st of May, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a racing yacht appeared to be in diffi- culties in Friar's Bay and was making heavy weather. He kept her under observation, and at 11.30 the life-boat N.T., on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a very rough sea.

There was a moderating southerly breeze and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the yacht Dot, of Liver- pool, half a mile north-east of Beau- maris pier, with a crew of three, on passage for the Mersey. She escorted her to moorings at Gallows Point and then returned to her station, arriving at 1.15.—Rewards to the crew, £5 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l 13s..