Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of April, I960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a jet speed-boat with a young man aboard was adrift between Abersoch beach and Llanbe- drog point. As no other suitable boat was available, the life-boat Kathleen and Virgoe Buckland was launched at 1.47. It was low water, and there was a moderate wind between south-west and west-south-west with a slight sea.

The man was taken on board the life- boat, which then towed the speed-boat, which was without anchor or oars, to Pwllheli. The life-boat reached her station at 4.25. The father of the young man made a gift to the Institution's funds. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 9s..