Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, a man telephoned the coxswain to say that he had seen red flares out to sea.

The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a very rough sea with a strong north-easterly gale blowing.

It was high water. Visibility was bad and there was heavy rain. The life- boat came up with the cabin cruiser Leader some five miles east of Moelfre light. She took off her crew of three and towed her to Beaumaris. The crew of the Leader had burned fifteen gallons of paraffin and all their bed- ding and spare clothing as distress signals. The life-boat arrived back at her station from Beaumaris at 5.15.

—Rewards to the crew, £14 14s.; re- wards to the helpers on shore, etc., £5 18s..