APRIL 22ND. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.

At 7.32 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the St. Ismael’s coastguard that the Royal Observer Corps at Carmarthen had reported throughthe Ferryside Police that a ship’s boat was adrift in Carmarthen Bay. The pulling and sailing life-boat Richard Ashley was launched at 8.40 A.M. A light N.E. wind was blowing and the sea was calm. The life-boat found, near No. 2 Buoy in Carmarthen Bay, an empty twenty-feet ship’s boat.

The vessel to which the boat belonged was unknown, but it was assumed that she had been sunk by enemy action. Taking the boat in tow, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.25 P.M. The boat was handed over to H.M. Customs Officer.- Rewards, £12 13s. 6d.