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The S.S. Yewarch

TAKING OUT A DOCTOR Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 9.19 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1947, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that a vessel one mile east-south-east of the coastguard sta- tion had signalled for medical help.

With a doctor on board the motor life- boat Louise Stephens was launched at 10.4, in a fresh westerly breeze with a moderate sea, and found the S.S.

Yewarch, of Glasgow, with one of her crew ill. The doctor went on board, and after he had treated the man the life-boat brought him back to Gorleston, arriving at 10.45.—Rewards, £8..