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The Seven Stones Lightvessel

Penlee, Cornwall. At 1.10 early on the morning of the 8th of May, 1960, the port medical officer told the honor- ary secretary that a member of the crew of the Seven Stones lightvessel was ill and asked if the life-boat could land him. At two o'clock, one hour before high water, the life-boat W. and S. was launched with the doctor and ambulance men on board. The weather was fine with a light south-easterly breeze and a slight sea. The life-boat reached the lightvessel at 5.10. The sick man was transferred to the life-boat and landed at Newlyn at 9.30. Rewards to the crew, £15 17s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore £1 4s..