LOST FOUR FINGERS At 11.45 p.m. on ist September, 1964, the honorary secretary heard that a Belgian trawler was off Fleetwood with an injured man aboard, who had lost four fingers in an accident. At 12.5 a.m. the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched into a smooth sea with the tide at low water. There was a gentle south-easterly breeze. The injured seaman was brought ashore by the life-boat and was transferred to hospital by ambulance. The lifeboat returned to her station at 1.15. The owners' agents made a donation to the funds of the Institution..