Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.6 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1959, the coastguard at Spurn Point informed the honorary secretary that two of the crew of the Admiralty vessel D.G.V.400 needed medical attention. At 3.50 the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched with a doctor on board in a moderate north-easterly wind. There was a moderate sea and a flood tide.

The doctor found that one man had injured his fingers in a door and the other had a haemorrhage. The second man was taken on board the life-boat and landed at Spurn Point, where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital. Paid permanent crew..