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A Helicopter

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.53 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a helicopter had been seen to crash half a mile east of Gorleston coastguard look- out. The life-boat Louise Stephens was launched three minutes later in a gentle south-south-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was high water. An air-sea rescue launch, which had been exercising with the helicooter, arrived just before the life-boat and rescued the helicopter crew of three. The life-boat picked up a rubber dinghy and transferred it to the rescue launch. She then returned to her station, arriving at 12.20. Re- wards to the crew, £10; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..