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The Commercial Radio Vessel Comet

Donaghadee, Co. Down - At 2.48 p.m. on 8th April, 1967, information was received that a member of the crew of the commercial radio vessel Comet was seriously injured and required medicalassistance. The life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.18 with a doctor on board in a squally north-easterly wind and an ebbing tide. The Comet was reached at 4.25 and the doctor went aboard and treated the injured man. He was then transferred to the life-boat and brought to Donaghadee where an ambulance was waiting to transfer him to hospital. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 6 o'clock..