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The S.S. Tod Head

Informa- tion was received on the 15th April, from the Police at Port St. Mary, through the Coastguard, that a man had reported that a steamer was on the rocks in the Sound and in a dangerous posi- tion. The Motor Life-boat Ethel Day Card-well was launched at 3 P.M. A strong south-easterly breeze was blowing with a rough sea. She found that the vessel, the s.s. Tod Head, bound with coal from Liverpool to Belfast, had already got off the rocks and was putting into Peel to find out what damage she had received. The Life- boat arrived back at her Station at 4 P.M.—Rewards, £6 10s. Qd..