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The S.S. Bravo

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 10.45 on the night of the 25th of August, 1956, the Lloyds agent at Great Yarmouth telephoned that the S.S. Bravo had an urgent maternity case on board and asked if the life-boat would put out to land her. The Bravo was expected in the Yarmouth Roads at 8.30 next morning. At 8.40 011 the 26th of August the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched. The sea was smooth, there was a moderate west-south-westerly breeze blowing, and the tide was flooding. The life- boat came up with the Bravo five miles east of Yarmouth and took the expec- tant mother on board. The life-boat reached her station at 10.17, and the woman was taken to hospital for a Caesarian operation.—Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..