Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 22nd of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Patriot, of Rostock, had asked for a doctor. Tidal conditions were unsuitable for a shoreboat to put out, and at 10.28 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched with a doctor on board. The sea was calm with a light south-south-west breeze blowing. The life-boat came up with the trawler three miles north-by-west of Whitby pier. The doctor found that a seaman was suffering from appendicitis, and the life-boat took him ashore to a waiting ambulance.

She reached her station again at 11.35.

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