JANUARY 27TH. - LLANDUDNO,CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.45 P .M. a message came from the coastguard that the Llandudno fishing boat Pilot No. 3 was in distress two miles east of the pier head, and the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was launched at 5.5 P . M . A southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the Pilot No. 3 with her engine broken down, and waterlogged.

She had a crew of three. The lifeboat took her in tow and while making for harbour in the fading light, found three more men in difficulties in the fishing rowing boat Eira. This boat also she took in tow and reached harbour, with the six men and their boats, at 6.30 P.M. - Rewards, £25 13s.