Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a number of people who had been on board the motor boat Dandy of Deganwy, which had been beached on Puffin Island, needed help. At two o'clock the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched with her boarding boat in tow. There was a choppy sea, a gentle south-easterly wind was blowing, and it was two hours after high water. The life-boat came as close to the beach as she could, and it was then learnt that the motor boat Zephyr had taken off five people. The boarding boat manned by members of the life-boat crew went ashore to take off the three remaining people. They were transferred to the life-boat, and as the Dandy was too badly damaged to be moved, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.45. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 14s..