Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 3.32 on the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Arfon was in difficulties two miles north-east of Trevor. She had a crew of four including her owner, who was the second coxswain of the life-boat. At 4.30 the life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched in a slight sea. There was a fresh south-south-easterly wind and it was an hour and a half before low water. The life-boat made for the position given, as did a helicopter from the R.A.F. station at Valley. The helicopter rescued the fishing boat's crew, and the life-boat, which reached the scene shortly afterwards, took the fishing boat, which was submerged on a sandbank with only her mast showing, in tow. The life-boat reached her station at 9.10. The second coxswain made a donation to the funds of the Institution. Rewards to the crew, £10 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 16s..