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The S.S. Baron Haig

Workington, Cumberland. — On the 30th of December, 1954, the S.S. Baron Haig, of Ardrossan, which was lying at anchor off the entrance to the harbour, wirelessed that she had a sick man on board and needed a doctor. At three o'clock in the afternoon the life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out with a doctor on board in a calm sea, with a moderate east-south-east breeze blowing. She put him on board, and he treated the man. He then re- embarked in the life-boat, which reached her station again at 4.30.— Rewards, £5 11*..