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Galaxy

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.45 p.m. on gth September, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Galaxy (radio transmitting station "Radio London") had requested the services of the lifeboat to take out a doctor to attend to the captain who was ill. The honorary medical adviser, who knew of the captain's illness from a previous service on the 2oth August, was consulted and the life-boat Edian Courtauld put out at 2.31. There was a light westerly breeze and a slight sea. The tide was ebbing. The captain of the Galaxy was taken aboard the life-boat and landed, to be driven to hospital by ambulance. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 3.36 p.m..