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The Shipwash Lightvessel

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that there was a very sick man in the Shipwash light- vessel and asked if the life-boat would put off with a doctor. At seven o'clock the no. 1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched. There was a light north- north-easterly breeze with a calm sea and an ebbing tide. The life-boat took the doctor to the lightvessel, embarked the sick man, and landed him at Aldeburgh, where an ambulance was waiting, at 9.46.—Rewards to the crew, £12; rewards to the helpers on shore, £24 4s. Qd. Refunded to the Institution by Trinity House..