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The S.S. Harmattan

DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.

During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured man off the S.S. Harmattan.

The weather was stormy and cold, with a westerly wind and a rough sea. After the arrival of naval medical staff by ambulance the motor life-boat G.W. put out half an hour after noon. About forty-five minutes later she reached the steamer five miles eastsouth- east of the life-boat station. In that rough sea it was only after three attempts that the medical party succeeded in boarding the steamer, and only with difficulty that the injured man was lowered on a stretcher into the life-boat. She brought him safely ashore at three o’clock. - Rewards, £8 9s..