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Dover, Kent. At 12.43 a.m. on 28th August, 1965, the Folkestone coastguard reported that the master of the tug Cruiser of Liverpool was very ill and required a doctor. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 1.17 with a doctor on board in a moderate south-south-westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was half an hour after high water. The life-boat came up with the tug three miles east of the North Goodwin light-vessel. Her master was transferred to the life-boat which landed him at Dover at 7 a.m. He was conveyed to hospital by ambulance..