Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 7.15 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore one mile north of Sker Point. At 7.55 the life-boat The William Gammon— Manchester and District XXX was launched at high water in a south- south-westerly gale and a very rough sea. She found the motor fishing vessel Altmark aground on the foreshore with her deck awash. There were no signs of life aboard, and for this reason, and because of the extreme weather conditions, the coxswain decided not to close the fishing vessel at that stage.

At ten o'clock the coxswain received a message by radio-telephone informing him that when the Altmark had left Briton Ferry the owner had had his wife and child on board. By this time mem- bers of the life-saving apparatus team had reached the Altmark. They boarded her and rescued her owner, who was in fact the only person aboard. The life- boat stood by until the rescue had been completed and then returned to her station, arriving at 12.30. Rewards to the crew, £12 16s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 8s..