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The S.S. Fulham IV

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of November, 1955, Lloyds' agent reported that the S.S. Fulham IV, of London, was mak- ing for Gorleston with a sick man, and asked if lie could be taken ashore.

At 8.15 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched with a doctor on board.

There was a swell and a light north- westerly breeze, and it was two hours after low water. The life-boat came up with the steamer three miles north of Gorleston, took the patient on board and landed him at her station, where an ambulance was waiting, at 9.30.—Rewards to the crew, £10; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3.