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The S.S. Sandstar

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. On the evening of the 7th of January, 1959, thepilot cutter Leader took a doctor out to the s.s. Sandstar in Yarmouth Roads to attend an injured seaman. The doctor diagnosed a compound fracture of the left thigh and asked for the life- boat to be launched to bring the man ashore on a stretcher. The life-boat S.G.E. left at 8.45 in a calm sea, with a light north-westerly breeze blowing and an ebb tide. The man was brought ashore and the life-boat reached her station at ten o'clock. Rewards to shore, £3 15s..