Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.39 on the morning of the 30th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor vessel Fidra of Leith that one of her crew was in pain with suspected appen- dicitis. The life-boat Louise Stephens was launched with a doctor on board at 7.55 in a slight sea with a gentle north-easterly breeze blowing and an ebb tide. The life-boat met the vessel in Yarmouth roads, and the doctor, after examining the patient, decided he could proceed in the Fidra to Newcastle.

He was given drugs to ease the pain, and the life-boat returned with the doctor to her station, arriving at 8.45. Re- wards to the crew, £9 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 10s..