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The S.S. Aggie

NORWEGIAN VESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.38 p.m. on 13th July, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a Norwegian vessel anchored in Bull Anchorage had an injured man aboard whose condition required the services of a doctor. At 8.40 the doctor arrived and the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched into a fresh south-easterly breeze and moderate sea.

It was high water. At 9 p.m. the life-boat secured alongside the vessel—the S.S.

Aggie—while the doctor went aboard to attend to the injured man. At 9.45 the doctor returned to the life-boat which arrived back on station at 10.10..