MA Y 22ND . - FERRYSIDE, CAR- MARTHENSHIRE. At 7.57 in the evening the Pembrey coastguard telephoned that a boat was in distress half a mile off shore, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Richard Ashley slipped her moorings at 8.27 and put out under all sail. A strong S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a heavy breaking sea and a thick fog. The coxswain had to take the life-boat across the bar and close alongshore in the breaking water, and, as nothing could be seen in the fog, he had to navigate her by lead and compass. Several times she took green seas aboard and was practically submerged, but the coxswain handled her very skilfully and took her to a point half-way along Pembrey Sands, where the boat in distress should have been, but found nothing.

It was learned later that the boat was the fishing smack Sealark, of Swansea, and that her crew of two men had managed to swim a shore. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 1.30 in the morning, having been five hours at sea. It was a difficult and arduous service, and an increase in the usual money awards on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew. Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £19 7s. ; additional rewards to crew, £7 10 s. ; total rewards, £26 17s.