MAN RESCUED AFTER EXPLOSION IN FISHING VESSEL Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. About 2.15 on the morning of the 7th June, 1963, Porthdinllaen coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an explosion had been heard to seaward off Trevor Point. At 2.40 the life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched in a calm sea. It was two hours before low water. Visibility was poor. At 4.45 it was reported that the fishing vessel Pandora, missing from Trevor, was drifting towards Bird Rock, and by this time visibility was no more than 15-20 yards.

The life-boat found the Pandora at 5.53 drifting very close to the rocks, and with one man on board. He was taken on board the life-boat and found to be suffering from exposure and shock. A member of the life-boat crew treated him for shock, and the man explained that fire had broken out in the cabin and the petrol tank had exploded. The life-boat towed the Pandora to Porthdinllaen, where the survivor was landed, and after being treated by a doctor he was taken to hospital by ambulance.

The life-boat reached her station at 10.5..