Humber, Yorkshire. — At 12.10 in the morning of the 27th of May, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard tele- phoned that the tug Scotsman, of Hull, which had been helping H.M.

tug Mediator to tow a naval vessel, was making for the River Humber with an injured man on board, and at 12.40 the life-boat City of Brad- ford II was launched with a doctor.

The sea was choppy, with a moderate westerly breeze blowing. The life- boat met the tug near Chequer Buoy, and put the doctor on board. She then embarked the injured man, a seaman from the Mediator, with a badly injured leg, and landed him at 2.30 at Grimsby, where an ambulance was waiting. She returned to her station, arriving at 6.30 that evening.

—Paid Permanent Crew..