AID FOR FINNS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At i.io p.m. on ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fimkraft of Helsinki, then five miles north-west of Bardsey Island, had an injured man on board and required help. There was a light north-westerly breeze with a slight sea. The tide was almost at high water when the life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 1.25. At 2.30 she reached the Finnish vessel and transferred the man, who was suffering from a cut wrist, to the shore at Bwlch. An ambulance was waiting there to carry him to Bangor hospital. The lifeboat then returned to her station at 4.15..