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The St. Gowan Lightvessel

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.5 on the .

afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the coastguard reported that a man on the St. Gowan lightvessel was ill and needed a doctor. A quarter of an hour later the Superintendent of Trinity House at Swansea asked for the life-boat to take a doctor out.

The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 12.55 with a doctor on board. The sea was calm; there was a moderate south-westerly breeze and a flooding tide. The life-boat put the doctor aboard the lightvessel. The sick man was then transferred to the life-boat, which returned to her station, where an ambulance was waiting, arriving at 5.15.—Rewards to the crew, £11 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 8s. Refunded to the Institution bv Trinity House..