Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 26th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the tanker Aureity of Lon- don had fallen down a ladder and might have broken some ribs. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched with a doctor and a nurse on board at 7.55 in a light south- westerly wind and a slight sea. It was one hour before high water. The life- boat made for the position of the tanker, which was a quarter of a mile north-east of No. 4 Sea Reach buoy, in foggy weather. The injured man was strapped to a stretcher and transferred to the life- boat, which then returned to her station, arriving at nine o'clock..