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Suffolk Coast

Angle, Pembrokeshire.—-At noon on the 15th January, 1938, a message was received that a doctor was wanted on board the steamer Suffolk Coast, of Liverpool, which was anchored off Milford Haven, and that no ordinary boat could make the trip. A heavy west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and rain. The motor life-boat Elizabeth Elson was launched at 12.30 P.M., picked up a doctor at Milford and took him to the Suffolk Coast. He found that a seaman was very badly injured, but it was decided not to move him, as the Suffolk Coast was soon going to dock. The life-boat brought the doctor ashore and, as the sea was too bad for her to be rehoused, she was left at moorings at 4.30 P.M., and was rehoused the following morning.— Rewards, £10 11*. 6d..