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SICK MAN LANDED FROM YACHT St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.20 on the night of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, the Area Commissioner of the St.

John Ambulance Brigade asked the life-boat to take a sick man off the yacht Robbe of London. The life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal was launched at 11.50, with a doctor and two St. John Ambulance personnel on board, in a light north-north-westerly wind and slight sea. It was half an hour after high water. The life-boat found the Robbe anchored in a bay east of Sark and took the sick man on board. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.55, where the sick man was transferred to a waiting ambulance and taken to hospital..