Barrow, Lancashire.—At 7.20 in the evening of the 21st of April, 1949, information was received that one of the crew of the s.s. Colytto, of Rotterdam, which was anchored one mile south-west of Lightning Knoll Buoy, urgently needed a doctor. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Elsie, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 8.15 with a doctor on board. A strong west-north-west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat could not get alongside in that sea, until the Colytto got under way and made a lee for her. She then took oft the sick man and returned to her station at 11.45, where an ambulance was waiting.

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