Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.30 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the wireless operator on board the s.s. Persic of Southampton had had a heart attack and needed a doctor. After waiting for the arrival of a doctor the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 11.40 in a slight sea. There was a light easterly breeze and the tide was half flood. The life-boat met the steamer at no. 5 Fairway buoy, where the doctor was put on board. After attending the sick man the doctor re- boarded the life-boat, which returned to her station, arriving at 12.40. Rewards to the crew, £7 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..