Through the Air to the Doctor. With the greatest of ease, a stricken seaman rides through the air from a cargo vessel to a Coast Guard combat cutter via the breeches buoy somewhere in the Atlantic. Stephen Joy, chief commissary steward of the freighter, was stricken and his skipper contacted the cutter. Rather than transfer him in a small boat over rough seas, the Coast Guardsmen fired a line to the other ship and quickly rigged a breeches buoy. Joy, who lives at 31 Marion Street, West Haven, CT, was pulled to the cutter, given treatment in it sick bay, and returned.

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