Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the coastguard tele- phoned that a motor vessel, which was.

towing a fifty-feet yacht, was thought to have ropes entangled in her propellers and needed help twenty miles west-by- south of Porthdinllaen. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 9.25 in a rough sea. There was a strong west-by-southerly breeze blow- ing, and the tide was flooding. Visi- bility was down two to three miles because of mist and rain. After two and a half hours the coxswain sighted the two boats on his starboard bow.

The life-boat came up with the motor fishing vessel 1122, with a crew of three, and a yacht. They were both at anchor, as the fishing vessel's engines had broken down. A towing line was made fast, but it broke seven times before both boats were brought to Porthdinllaen, which was reached at 8.35.—Property Salvage Case..