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British Diligence

St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 1.40 in the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker entering St. Ives Bay was sig- nalling for a doctor. No other boat was available, so at 2.5, in fine weather and a calm sea, the life-boat, Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched with a doctor and three ambulance men on board. She put them on the tanker British Diligence, of London, and they found that a man had been injured falling into the ship's hold. He was taken into the life-boat, which landed him at 2.50, and an ambulance took him to Pen- zance hospital.—Rewards, £10 15s..