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The S.S. Atlantic Sea

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Atlantic Sea, of Panama, had reported that a member of her crew had been seriously injured by a falling derrick and needed a doctor. At 9.24 the life-boat City of Bradford III embarked a doctor and was launched at once. The sea was smooth, the weather was fine, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the steamer at No. 5 gateway buoy at 9.38 and put the doctor aboard. A few minutes later the injured man died, and the life-boat re-embarked the doctor and returned to her station, arriving at 10.25.— Paid Permanent Crew; rewards, £l..