DRIFTING SAND BARGE TAKEN IN TOW The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 12.20 on the morning of the 31st March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor sand barge Tony of Hull had broken adrift with one man on board while being towed by the motor tanker Wandale H. near the Kenfig buoy.

At 12.40 the life-boat William Gammon •—Manchester and District XXX was launched at high water in a moderate west-north-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. She found the barge and escorted her into Swansea and then returned to her station, arriving at 5.2..