Caister, Norfolk.—At 9.20 on the morning of the 26th of December, 1952, the commanding officer of the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, which had been aground on the Scroby Sands since the 3rd of Decem- ber, wirelessed that the Danish tug Aegir, standing by the Havoernen, had a man on board suffering from appen- dicitis. He asked for the life-boat, and at 9.30 the Jose Neville was launched in a smooth sea with a light southerly breeze blowing. She took the man off the Aegir and then fetched another sick man from the Danish tug Garm, which was also standing by.

The life-boat took them to Caister, where an ambulance was waiting, and arrived back at her station at 11.15.

A donation was made to the funds of the Institution.—Rewards, £12 13,9.