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The S.S. Afon Gwili

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 3.27 in the morning of the 1st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Afon Gwili, of Llanelly, had anchored about a mile to the south-east of Yarmouth, and had asked for a doctor for a badly injured man. The motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 3.43 in a strong northerly breeze and a rough sea, with a doctor on board. The man, who had a badly injured foot, was brought ashore in the life-boat, which arrived back at her station at 5.2.r—Rewards, £10 13s. 6d..