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The S.S. Cordale

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 11.11 on the night of the 7th of May, 1949, the police told the life-boat station, through the coastguard, that a doctor was needed for a man with a dislocated shoulder on board the S.S.

Cordale, of London, which was then entering the roads. The life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 11.27 with a doctor. A north-west wind was blowing with a slight sea. The life- boat brought the man ashore and he was taken to hospital. She got back to her station at half-past one in the morning .and was re-housed later.—• Rewards, £13 19*. 6d..