Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 8.52 on the evening of the 30th of August, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message that a fishing boat was making distress signals off the Barmouth Fairway buoy. At 9.20 the life-boat The Chieftain was launched in a heavy swell, with a light westerly wind blowing and a flood tide.

She found the fishing boat, and at the request of her owner, who was aboard her with another man, took her in tow to harbour, arriving at 9.10. The fishing boat had lost a propeller. Re- wards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..