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The S.S.. Gwynwood and S.S.Deodata

OCT. 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Just after four in the afternoon a police inspector and ambulance men arrived at the life-boat station, and shortly afterwards a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S.. Gwynwood had entered the roadstead and was flying signals for a doctor and two stretchers to be taken out. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 4.20 P.M., taking with her a doctor, ambulance men and stretchers. Three injured men, two of them on stretchers, and nine other men, all survivors of the Norwegian steamer S.S.Deodata, which had been sunk by enemy action at 7.45 in the morning, were taken into the life-boat and brought ashore. The injured men were sent to hospital and the others to the sailors’ home. The life-boat was ready for service again at 6.20 P.MRewards, £14 8s..