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Ephratah

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.10 in the morning of the 4th of September, 1948, information was received that a trawler, which had gone ashore at Saddle Point, was blowing her syren and burning flares, and the motor life- boat White Star was launched at 4.55.

A moderate northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The life-boat found the steam trawler Ephratah, of Milford Haven, with a crew of seven, hard on the rocks. With difficulty she anchored, got alongside her, and took off the seven men. She arrived back in the harbour at 7 o'clock. The trawler was later refloated and towed clear by a motor boat.—Rewards, £17. 95..