Triton
SEAMAN'S INJURIES St. Ives, Cornwall. At 12.20 a.m. on 2nd April, 1964, the honorary secretary was told by the radio medico service that the Belgian trawler Triton of Zeebrugge was proceeding towards St. Ives Bay with a badly injured seaman on board. The estimated time of the trawler's arrival in the bay was given as about i a.m. and the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched immediately with a doctor on board. There was a moderate to fresh east-north-easterly wind with a rough sea, and it was low water. The lifeboat met the Triton and escorted her to calmer water where the doctor and a stretcher were transferred to her. The seaman, who was very badly injured with fractures of the thigh, pelvis, ribs and arm, received medical treatment before being transferred to the life-boat. He was landed at 2.20 and taken by ambulance to hospital. The life-boat was rehoused at 3.15..