Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 20th of January, 1956, the Lowestoft berthing master reported that the master of the tanker British Empress, of London, which was lying off the Gorton lightvessel, had asked for the Port Medical Officer, as a member of the tanker's crew had been badly injured. At 10.30 the life-boat Michael Stephens put out, with the medical officer on board, in a choppy sea. There was a strong west-south- west wind and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat put the doctor aboard the tanker, and the injured man, who had fractured his skull, was transferred to the life-boat in a Neil Robertson stretcher. The life-boat then returned to her station, where an ambulance was waiting, arriving at 1.14. The owners of the tanker made a donation to the funds of the Institution, and the master of the tanker expressed his thanks. Rewards to the crew, £10 105.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l 45..