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The Trinity House Vessel Triton

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 2.34 on the afternoon of the 24th of March, 1960, the district superintendent of Trinity House at Great Yarmouth informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House vessel Triton was unable to enter harbour to land a sick man from the Smith's Knoll lightvessel, and he asked for the services of the life-boat. At 2.42 the life-boat Louise Stephens, which had returned from a service a little more than an hour before, was launched in a fresh easterly wind. There was a heavy swell, and it was two hours after low water. The life-boat met the Triton in Yarmouth Roads, embarked the sick man, and landed him at 3.25. The life- boat reached her station at 3.50. Re- wards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 11s..