Cromer, Norfolk. At 1.55 early on the morning of the 8th March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the collier Corstar was mak- ing for Cromer with a sick man aboard and that a doctor was needed. There was a light west-south-westerly wind, and the sea was smooth. At 2.37 the No.

1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched on an ebbing tide, with a doctor on board. She met the Corstar about a miJe and a half north-east of Cromer and transferred the doctor. A few minutes later the doctor and the sick man were taken on board the life-boat. They were landed at Cromer, where an ambulance was waiting, and the sick man was taken to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station 3.30..