The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that shouts for help could be heard from the wreck-marker buoy in Ox- wich Bay. At 11.5 the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and District XXX was launched. The sea was calm, there was a light north- westerly breeze, and it was low water.

The life-boat found a youth clinging to the buoy. He had scrambled to it when the boat, in which he had been with two other youths, had capsized.

The two youths had been rescued by two men in a canoe. The life-boat rescued the youth from the buoy, using her scrambling net. gave him hot cocoa, and took him ashore, arriving at 1.20 early on the 31st.— Rewards to the crew, £8 Us.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 12s..