Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a trawler with an injured man on board was making for the Humber and that the services of a doctor were needed. There was a moderate north-easterly wind and a rough sea. At 3.4, an hour after high water, the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched. She met the Lowestoft trawler Boston Pegasus twenty-five miles east-by-south of Spurn Point and put the doctor on board. The sea was too rough for the patient, who had an arm injury, to be transferred to the lifeboat immediately, and it was decided to make for the Humber, where under the lee of the land the patient and doctor were transferred to the life-boat.

On board the life-boat the injured man was given a saline drip and injections by the doctor before being landed at Grimsby, where an ambulance was waiting. The doctor and the second coxswain accompanied the patient to hospital and then rejoined the life-boat, which returned to her station at 12.30.

It was later learnt that the injured man had to have his injured arm amputated..