The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 30th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Fordfield had sighted a floating body a mile and a half from Helwick Passage buoy and that she would stand by until the life-boat arrived. At 4.7 the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and District XXX was launched at low water in a moderate south-west-by-westerly breeze.

She reached the Fordfield at 5.10. The body was recovered from the sea and brought to the life-boat slipway, where it was placed in the care of the police. The life-boat reached her station at seven o'clock..