Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 5.50 on the morning of the 6th of September, 1959, a message was re- ceived that the motor boat Heron, which had a man and his wife on board and was towing a small dinghy, had not returned from a fishing trip in Nevin Bay. At 6.20 the life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched in a calm sea. There was a light southerly breeze and it was low water. The life- boat carried out a search in which an Anson aircraft from the Royal Air Force station at Valley joined. At 12.50 a message was received that the aircraft had seen the missing boats sixteen miles north-west of Porthdin- llaen Point. The life-boat made for the position given, found the boats and took the man and his wife on board.

The motor boat's engine had broken down and the couple had been adrift for eighteen hours. The life-boat towed thetwo boats to Porthdinllaen and reached her station at five o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £18 18s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 12s..