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Volant

During a heavy N.N.W. gale, with a rough sea, on the 29th October, the schooner Volant, of Kilkeel, which was sheltering in Moelfre Bay, began to drag her anchors towards the shore. She was bound from IQJkeel to Liverpool with a' cargo of granite, and carried a crew of four. In answer to her signals of distress the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 3.15 P.M., took off her crew, and landed them. She returned to her station at 4.15 P.M.—Rewards, £8 19s..