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Rudderman

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About 1.30 early on the morning of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1952, the tanker Rudderman, of London, wirelessed that her chief engineer had a badly poisoned arm and asked for a boat to land him. The weather was too bad for a shore boat to put out, and when the Rudderman approached Lowestoft at 4.15 the life-boat Michael Stephens left her moorings in a choppy sea and fresh breeze. She came up with the tanker half a mile off-shore, took the chief engineer on board, and at five o'clock landed him in the harbour, where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital.—Rewards, £8 15s..