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The Newarp Lightvessel

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.38 on the night of the 16th of March, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard passed on a report from the Trinity House Superintendent that a member of the crew of the Newarp lightvessel had been injured and needed immediate attention. He asked if the life-boat would take a doctor to him, and, as no other boat was available, the life-boat Louise Stephens embarked a doctor and was launched in a calm sea with a light east-south-east breeze blowing, at 10.26. She put the doctor aboard the vessel. He tended the injured man, who was then taken into the life-boat and landed in the harbour at 4.30 on the morning of the 17th— Rewards, £23 14s. 6d. Refunded to the Institution by Trinity House..