JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface. On the following morning four survivors escaped by means of the Davis apparatus and a request was received from the Hoylake coastguard for a doctor.

The weather was fine, with a northerly windand a moderate sea. At 1 P.M. the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards put out with Dr. Maddock Jones on board.

She took him to the destroyer Somali and remained alongside for some hours, returning to her station at 10.30 P.M.

Ninety-nine lives were lost in this the biggest submarine disaster of all time.- Rewards, £24 11s. 6d.