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The Dredger Foremost

LANDED INJURED MAN Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.2 p.m. on i8th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man on board the dredger Foremost that was anchored at No. 5 sea reach buoy had injured his back and was unconscious. At 1.36 the life-boat Greater London II, Civil Service No. 30, was launched in a gentle north westerly breeze and a slight sea. The tide was ebbing. The injured man was put onto a stretcher, taken aboard the life-boat and at 2.43 landed at Southend Pier. The life-boat was re-housed at 3.45 and the patient taken to hospital by ambulance..