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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 14th of December, 1956, the St. John Ambulance Area Commissioner reported that an urgent call had been received from a doctor at Sark informing him of a maternity case requiring immediate surgical at- tention. As a severe gale was blowing the Area Commissioner thought it was not advisable to use the ambulance launch, and at 8.3 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out with four members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade on board. There was a very rough sea, a moderate south-south- westerly gale was blowing and the tide was ebbing. The woman was brought to St. Peter Port, which was reached at 10.10.—Rewards to the crew, £10 10*.; reward to the helper on shore, 14s..