Padstow, Cornwall. At 10.45 on the night of the 12th of January, 1961, Lloyd's agent informed the honorarysecretary that the motor fishing vessel Moonlit Waters, which had an injured man on board, had asked for a doctor to be brought to her off Pentire Head at midnight. The No. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick put out at 11.40 with the divisional director of the British Red Cross Society aboard, as no doctor was available. There was a gentle south- westerly wind with a slight sea, and it was one hour before high water. The life-boat met the Moonlit Waters as arranged, and the injured man was transferred and landed at Padstow at 12.20. The life-boat then returned to escort the fishing vessel to Padstow and returned to her station at two o'clock in the morning..