AUGUST 2 1ST. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.24 P.M. the R.A.F. asked for the help of the life-boat to search for an aeroplane off Porthysgaden, and the motor life-boat M.O.Y.E. was launched at 6.51 P.M. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth.

The life-boat found the motor boat Pal towing a rubber dinghy and wreckage. On board she had the body of a man. The flood tide was strong, and the life-boat towed the motor boat to Porthysgaden. She then returned to Porthdinllaen, searching as she went, and when she was off Porthdinllaen Look-out a boatman told her that a rubber dinghy had been seen some two miles out. Here she round wreckage of an aeroplane, but there was no sign of the dinghy, and as it was now dark the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 10.20 P.M. - Rewards, £9 12s.

(See Bardsey Island, and Porthysgaden, Carmarthenshire, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 101.).