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The Oil Rig Endeavour

TOOK INJURED MAN OFF OIL RIG At 7.15 p.m. on 22nd November, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a man aboard the oil rig Endeavour needed medical attention for injuries. The life-boat James and Catherine MacFarlane, which was on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.50 in a strong northerly breeze and a rough sea. It was two hours to low water. The injured man was taken off the oil rig and brought back to Scarborough. The life-boat reached her station at 11.15 P-m-.