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Nine Years After

THE coxswain at Eastbourne has received a picture postcard from Sweden: " Many hearty greetings to you and warm thanks for wonderful rescue of 1930 to all from B. Lindfors." The postcard had a picture of Trafalgar Square.

B. Lindfors was a boy on board the Swedish steamer Inger which was in collision off the Royal Sovereign Light- ship, about one in the morning of 1st June, 1930, and sank with the loss of fifteen lives. The East- bourne life-boat found him on an overturned boat four hours after the collision..