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The S.S. Florence Cooke

Moelfre, Anglesey. — About 8.30 in the morning of the 26th of July, 1949, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a man was adrift in a dinghy one mile east of Point Lynas, and at 8.45 the life-boat G.W. was launched, in a light south-westerly breeze with a smooth sea. She found the dinghy with only one oar and an exhausted man on board. He was a sailor, and had been trying to reach his ship, the s.s. Florence Cooke, of Sunderland, which was lying in Moelfre Bay. The life-boat rescued the man and towed his dinghy to the shore, arriving back at her station at 10.30.—Rewards, £8..