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The S.S. Keynes

Caister, Norfolk.—At 9.50 on the morn- ing of the 15th of August, 1955, localshipping agents asked if the life-boat would take ashore a sick man from the S.S. Keynes, of London, which was lying at anchor two miles north-west of North Cockle Buoy. At 10.15 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a calm sea. There was a light north- easterly breeze and fog, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat took the man on board, wirelessed for a doctor and ambulance to meet her at her station, and reached Caister again at 12.10.—Rewards to the crew. £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 6s..