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The S.S. Matching

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1951, Lloyd's agent reported that the S.S. Matching, of London, due off Gorleston at 6.0 that evening, had a sick man on board and had asked for a doctor. At 6.4 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched with a doctor, in a moderate swell with a moderate south - south - east breeze. She met the steamer quarter of a mile off the harbour, took the patient on board and landed him at her station, where an ambulance was waiting, at 6.59.—Rewards, £11 5s. 6d..