Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 7.56 on the evening of the 30th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran was in difficulties half a mile south-east of Crab Island, Rotherslade, and that her crew of two had been trying for two hours to make the shore under sail.

Shortly afterwards the occupants of a canoe which had returned ashore reported that the two men on board the catamaran were exhausted and cold, and the life-boat William Gammon—Man- chester and District XXX was launched.

There was a smooth sea, with a gentle west-south-westerly breeze blowing and a flood tide. The life-boat took the two men on board and with the catamaran in tow returned to her station, arriving at ten o'clock. Rewards to the crew.

£6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 4s..