Barrow, Lancashire. At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that the tanker Kellia had reported that there was a small fishing boat alongside her with one man on board who had broken an arm through catching it in the winch. He was semi-conscious and a doctor was urgently needed. At five o'clock the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched with the honorary medical adviser on board in a moderate north- westerly wind and a moderate sea.

The tide was half ebb. She reached the fishing boat at 4.45, when it was dis- covered that the man had fractured his right arm and had lost a lot of blood.

He was treated by the doctor and transferred to the life-boat, which reached Roa Island, with the fishing boat in tow, at 6.15. The injured man was taken to an ambulance, which was waiting, and the life-boat returned to her station at 7.45. The fishing boat was handed over to a friend of the owner. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 11s..