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The S.S. Grane Fors

DOCTOR TAKEN TO PANAMANIAN STEAMER Humber, Yorkshire. At 8.10 on the evening of the 17th May, 1963, the coxswain superintendent was informed that the s.s. GraneForsof Panama, anchored off Spurn, had a sick man on board who needed medical attention. There was a moderate north-westerly breeze with a slight sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 8.50 with a doctor on board. The doctor was put on board the vessel, and after he had attended to the seaman they were both transferred to the life-boat. The seaman and doctor were landed at Grimsby, where an ambulance was waiting, and the lifeboat then returned to her station, arriving at 12.35..