TOW FOR CONVERTED LIFE-BOAT Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted R.N.L.I.

life-boat, ketch-rigged, was showing distress signals five miles south-west of Mumbles Head. At 12.47 the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and District XXX was launched in a strong easterly breeze and a rough sea. It was two and a half hours after low water.

The life-boat found the converted lifeboat Ishbara, which had three people on board, with her sails carried away and her engine disabled. The life-boat towed the Ishbara to Swansea harbour and reached her station at 3.30..