Rhyl, Flintshire. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 26th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small boat with three anglers on board was in difficulties about half a mile off the entrance to Rhyl harbour. The men were waving oars with rags attached. Five minutes later, when the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched, there was a near gale from the south-south-east and a very rough sea. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat reached the boat at 2.5 and found she had taken a great deal of water on board. Her three occupants were taken aboard the life- boat, which had to come alongside twice before this could be done. The life-boat landed them at Rhyl and reached her station at 3.30..