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The Humber Lightvessel

Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 20th of February, 1961, the coxswain superintendent was asked by the Trinity House depot at Great Yarmouth to land an injured man from the Humber lightvessel. When the life- boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 10.45, an hour and a half after high water, there was a gentle south-westerly wind and a moderate sea. Visibility was poor. The life-boat reached the light- vessel at 11.55. She embarked the in- jured man and took him to Grimsby, where he was landed at 2.55. The life- boat then returned to her station, arriv- ing at five o'clock..