Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 11.50 on the night of the 22nd of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Flensburg of Kiel wanted to land a sick seaman.

The honorary secretary agreed that the life-boat should meet the trawler in Portrush Bay, and at 6.54 on the morning of the 23rd of October the life- boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was launched in a moderate sea. There was a moderate southerly breeze, and it was two hours after low water. The seaman was transferred to the life-boat, landed at Portrush harbour and taken to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at 7.45. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..