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The S.S. Kyle Firth

MAY 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 4.30 A.M. it was reported from Rhoscolyn that a ship was ashore at Penrhos Point, near the South Stack. The weather was calm.

The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at 5 A.M. with only half her crew and found the S.S.

Kyle Firth, of Glasgow. She had a crew of nine and a cargo of stone chippinqs. Four of them had got away in one of the ship’s boats, and the life-boat rescued the other five. She returned to her station at 6.45 A.M.

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