BridlingtSn, Yorkshire. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 12th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that green flares had been reported six to eight miles east-by- south of Flamborough Head. There was a moderate northerly gale with a rough sea and a heavy swell, and the weather was squally. Just as the life- boat was about to launch a further message was received from the coast- guard asking that the life-boat should meet a vessel which had just entered the bay. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched at 2.15, when it was low water. The vessel in the bay did not in fact need help, and the life-boat turned south and made for the area where the flares had been reported. Nothing was seen, and the life-boat was recalled. A further message was then received, and the life-boat made for the trawler Karl Marx of Rostock. She took on board an injured man, one of whose hands had been crushed. The injured seaman was landed and taken to hospital for treatment, and later the life-boat took him back to the trawler. She then returned to her station, arriving at two o'clock..