Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 5th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the fishing boat May Blossom was in difficulties four miles south-west of Barmouth, and at 3.45 the life-boat The Chieftain was launched. There was a light north-westerly wind, with a moder- ate sea, and it was two hours before low water. The life-boat found an exhausted man, the only person in the May Blossom, which had sunk, clinging to a life-buoy. She rescued him, wirelessed for a doctor and an ambulance to be ready at Barmouth, and landed the man at her station at 5.20..