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Emlyn

At about 10 P.M. on the 12th November Coxswain Howells observed the steamer Emlyn, of • Cardiff, burning flares for assistance, and he at once assembled the crew of the Motor Life-boat Charterhouse. The boat proceeded to the vessel, which had dragged her anchors and drifted outside the eastern breakwater. After some difficulty she got alongside the steamer, which by this time was bumping heavily on the rocks, and rescued the crew, six in number. At the time of the casualty an E. by N. hurricane prevailed, with a very heavy sea. The Emlyn was bound for Runcorn with a cargo of flints..