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The Outer Dowsing Lightvessel

Hutnber, Yorkshire.—At 10.7 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Superintendent of the Trinity House depot at Great Yarmouth that a member of the crew of the Outer Dowsing lightvessel had been injured.

He needed medical attention, and at 10.30 the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched in a moderate swell, with a light north-easterly breeze blowing and a flooding tide. The life-boat took him aboard, landed him at Grimsby where an ambulance was waiting, and reached her station again at 8.30 in the evening. The Super- intendent expressed his thanks.— Paid Permanent Crew; rewards to the crew, £12. Refunded to the Institu- tion by Trinity House..