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The S.S. Eleth

TEN LANDED Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.10 on the night of the 7th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported that a small vessel off Salt Island had signalled SOS with a torch, and the motor life- boat A.E.D. was launched at 9.37. A north-north-west gale was blowing with a rough sea. The life-boat found the S.S. Eleth, of Liverpool, ashore on Salt Point and making water. She was bound from Preston to Rosslare, laden with coal, and had a crew of ten. The life-boat took them all off and landed them at Holyhead at 10.10.—Rewards, £5..