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The S.S. Naess Falcon

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 19th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Naess Falcon of Monrovia, had a sick man on board. At 1.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a choppy sea. There was a gentle easterly wind and it was high water. The life-boat met the steamer four miles north of Point Lynas, and the seaman, who had pneumonia, was transferred to her and landed at Moelfre. where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital.

The life-boat reached her station at five o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..