Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.36 on the morning of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Alchymist of Lon- don, which had a sick man aboard, would be off Bembridge in about one hour and had asked for the help of the life-boat to take the man to hospital. At 8.56, when the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched, there was a light south-west- erly wind and a slight sea. It was one hour after high water. At 9.35 the life- boat met the Alchymist. The seaman was transferred and landed, the life-boat reaching her station at 10.55. The sea- man was taken to hospital by ambulance.