Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 8th of May, 1957, a message was received from the Penmon coastguard that a motor vessel, which was anchored in a dangerous position near the Perch Rock in the channel between Anglesey and Puffin Island, needed help. At 7.31 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in a choppy sea. There was a gentle southerly breeze blowing and it was high water. The life-boat came up with the motor vessel Cristo, of Bristol, with a crew of five. Her captain reported that he was bound from Caernarvon to Liverpool with a cargo of phosphate and that his engines had broken down. The life-boat took the vessel in tow to an anchorage off Bangor pier. She then returned to her station, arriving at eleven o'clock.

—Rewards to the crew, £12 19s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..