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The Lifting Camel L.C. 16

Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 2.17 early on the morning of the 23rd of April, 1954, the South Gare lighthouse keeper rang up to say that one of the lifting camels working on the wreck of the S.S. Guildford in Tees Bay had broken adrift, and was driving towards a slag reef. Twelve men were aboard and they flashed SOS signals. At 2.44 the life-boat John and Lucy Cordingley was launched. There was a heavy swell, with a north-easterly breeze blowing. The life-boat found Camel L.C. 16 aground. The life-boat went alongside and with difficulty rescued the men. She took them to Hartle- pool and arrived back at her station at 5.35.—Rewards, £11 6,?..