MARCH 18TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.14 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Holyhead, through the coastguard, that a vessel was on fire. A later message gave her position as 19 miles W.S.W.

from Porthdinllaen Point, and at 6.55 P.M. the motor life-boat M.O.Y.E. was launched.

A S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The life-boat found that the vessel was the S.S. Iris, of Amsterdam, bound laden from Belfast for Newport, Mon. She had been bombed and machine-gunned by aeroplanes and one of the crew had been wounded.

A life-boatman was put aboard to pilot her into Porthdinllaen Bay. There the life-boat went alongside again, took off the injured man, and brought him ashore to go to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.47 A.M. - Rewards, £13 6s..