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SICK BABY BROUGHT FROM SARK St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.22 on the night of Monday the 9th September, 1963, the St. John Ambulance Island Commissioner asked if the life-boat could take a seriously ill 22-monthold baby from Sark. The original request had been made by the Sark doctor.

The life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal left her moorings at 10.42 on the high tide. The weather was fine with light airs from the west. On arrival at Sark a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and a Guernsey doctor embarked the child and the life-boat returned to St. Peter Port where an ambulance was waiting.

The life-boat returned to her moorings at five minutes to one on the 10th..