Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.5 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker San Cirilo, of London, had asked for a doctor to attend a man suspected of having appendicitis. At 8.45 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched with a doctor on board. There was a choppysea with a light south-westerly breeze blowing. The life-boat found the tanker near No. 1 Sea Reach Buoy.

She put the doctor on board, and when he had treated the patient took him back to Southeiid, which was reached at eleven o'clock.—Rewards, £7 15s..