Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.30 on the morning of the 8th of April, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard told the cox- swain superintendent that a member of the crew of the Bull lightvessel had died during the night and asked if the life- boat would launch to take out a doctor who would be available in two hours.

At 6.30 the life-boat City of Bradford III embarked the doctor and police and was launched in a calm sea. There was a light northerly breeze and a flood tide.

The life-boat arrived alongside the Bull lightvessel at 6.40 and put the doctor and police on board. Three quarters of an hour later the body of the man was taken on board and the doctor and police re-embarked. They were landed at the jetty at Spurn Point at 7.45. Paid permanent crew..