Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.22 on the evening of the 14th of November, 1954, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Caronte, of Rouen, which was at anchor one and a half miles south-cast of Spurn Point, had re- ported that she had a seriously sick man on board and needed a doctor.

At 8.15 in an ebbing tide the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched, with a doctor on board. She made for the steamer in a calm sea. A moderate north-easterly breeze was blowing. The life-boat put the doctor aboard, but the man was out of danger and the master did not wish him to be landed. The doctor re-embarked in the life-boat which returned to her station, arriving at 12.30 early on the 15th.—Paid Permanent Crew..