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Sun Seahorse

SICK MAN TAKEN OFF NORWEGIAN VESSEL IN GALE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.54 on the evening of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Norwegian motor vessel Sun Seahorse had a sick man on board who needed a doctor. There was a strong gale from the south-west with a very rough sea. At 9.5 the life-boat Edward and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched on a flooding tide with a doctor on board. The doctor boarded the motor vessel, and it was decided to land the sick man. He was taken aboard the life-boat with difficulty, as the Sun Seahorse was dragging her anchor. Because of the prevailing weather conditions it was not practicable to land him at either Moelfre or Beaumaris, and the life-boat therefore made for Menai Bridge pier, where the patient and the doctor were transferred to a waiting ambulance. When the weather moderated the life-boat returned to Moelfre, arriving at eight o'clock in the morning..