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Blackburn Rovers

INJURED MAN At 2.35 p.m. on 28th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Grimsby trawler Blackburn Rovers in Bridlington Bay had an injured man on board. There was a fresh north westerly breeze with a moderate sea. It was almost low water. The life-boat Tillie Morrison Sheffield II launched at 3.5, and after a doctor had embarked, went to the trawler. The injured man was transferred to the life-boat which returned to the south pier, where the patient was landed with the help of the harbour crane and conveyed to hospital..