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Sangara

Penlee, Cornwall. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 25th of May, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that a woman who was a passenger on board the m.v. Sangara of Liverpool, had had a haemorrhage and needed a doctor. The life-boat W. and S. left Newlyn with three doctors and with ambulance men on board, at 8.10 half an hour after high water. There was a light southerly wind and a slight sea. The life-boat met the Sangara ten miles south-west of Penzance, where the doctors boarded the ship. After re- ceiving medical attention the woman and her ten-month old baby were transferred to the life-boat. They were landed at 11.35 at Newlyn, where an ambulance was waiting. The life-boat reached her moorings at 12.15. Re- wards to the crew, £8 8s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 15s. The owners made a donation to the Institution's funds..