Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Lone Star, with one man on board, was twenty-four hours overdue from fishing off Aberdaron. At 5.55 the life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a slight sea. A gentle northerly breeze was blowing and the tide was flooding. The life-boat searched over a wide area but found nothing and returned to her station at one o'clock on the morning of the 20th to refuel. She left again at three o'clock and searched the coast around and into Hell's Mouth and then proceeded to search around Bardsey. At 10.10 thecoxswain asked for the help of aircraft, and an Anson aircraft was overhead at 11.49. At one o'clock the life-boat crew picked up a yellow painted oar, which it was thought belonged to the missing boat, six miles south-east of Bardsey Island. The life-boat was refuelled for the second time at Aberdaron at 1.59 and resumed the search at 3.50. She eventually found the Lone Star in Bardsey Island Sound half submerged but without trace of her owner. The boat was taken in tow to Aberdaron, and the life-boat finally reached her station at 12.30 early on the 21st of June. Rewards to the crew, £50 18s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £12 12s..