St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 9.15 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing light giving SOS signals had been seen coming from Skomer Island. At 9.45 the life-boat Swyn-y-Mor (Civil Service No. 6) was launched in a moderate sea.

There was a moderate west-north- westerly wind and it was one hour before high water. The life-boat took a small boat with her to enable a landing to be made on the island. The second coxswain went ashore in the small boat and found that a workman had injured his foot. The man was taken down on a tractor to the beach, where the second coxswain put his own life-jacket on him before he was lifted into the boat. With some difficulty because of the swell the injured man was safely transferred to the life-boat, and arrangements were made for the honorary medical adviser to be in attendance when he returned. The life-boat reached her station at 1.30 in the morning. The man was taken at once to the doctor's surgery for treat- ment and was later conveyed to hospital by ambulance. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..