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Amelie Suzanne

DOCTOR REQUIRED Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 8.10 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the skipper of the fishing coble Who Cares, who had just returned ashore, reported that the trawler Amelie Suzanne of Ostend was signalling for a doctor but that conditions at sea were too bad for the coble to go alongside and take an injured man ashore. At 8.15 the life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched with a doctor on board and found the trawler a mile south-east of Scarborough. A gale was blowing from the west, the sea was rough and it was low water. The doctor found that the skipper had injured a foot and had him transferred to the life-boat, which took him ashore to a waiting ambulance. As the injured man was detained in hospital overnight, the life-boat launched again and put the life-boat second coxswain aboard the trawler to pilot her in. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.20..