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The S.S. Kentwood

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About noon on the 12th of May, 1951, the coastguard reported that the S.S. Kentwood, of London, lying off Gorton lightvessel, had asked if the life-boat could take a doctor to her to attend a sick man. At 12.45 in the afternoon the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched, with a doctor, in a moderate sea and a moderate north-easterly breeze. The patient was taken on board and the life-boat wirelessed for an ambulance to meet her at Lowestoft. Then she landed the man, and reached her station again at 3.15.—Rewards, £6 13s.-.