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The ex-Dutch Motor Vessel Sumatra

NOVEMBER 6TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY. At about 11A.M. the coastguard telephoned that the resident naval officer at Holyhead wanted the lifeboat to take out a doctor to the ex-Dutch motor vessel Sumatra, near Puffin Island, as she had an injured man on board, and the motor life-boat Frederick Kitchen was launched at 11.45 A.M. A S.W. wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. The lifeboat found the vessel off Dinmore Point, put the doctor on board, and then escorted the vessel to Beaumaris pier, where the injured man was put ashore. He was a gunner who had been wounded in action against an enemy aeroplane on the previous evening.

The life-boat returned to her station at 1.35 P.M. - Rewards, £6 13s.