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Leonard

NOVEMBER 9TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

During the morning the coxswain was informed by the piermaster that the steam trawler Leonard, of Fleetwood, had come alongside the pier with her holds full of water. A strong N.N.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. An Auxiliary Fire Service pump had been obtained, but it could not be worked from the pier, so at 11.30 A.M. the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was launched and took the pump and its crew to the trawler. The pump was got to work immediately, while the life-boat stood by and life-boatmen helped to discharge the fish and gear. Rather than beach the Leonard her master decided to take her to Bangor, and the life-boat, with the pump and its crew on board, escorted her. The journey began at 6.45 A.M. on the morning of the 10th, and was safely completed.

The life-boat returned to her station at 1 P.M. - Property salvage case..