Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1957, the police reported that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile off shore. At three o'clock the life-boat The Chieftain was launched in a choppy sea. There was a fresh easterly breeze blowing and the tidewas flooding. When the life-boat was a mile out she picked up two exhausted men from the shore safety boat, which had put out to search for the missing dinghy. The safety boat was taken in tow and the life-boat continued out to sea. Three miles farther on, after a long search, the life-boat found the rubber dinghy empty. She took it on board and continued to search but found nothing and returned to her station, arriving at 5.40.—Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..