Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German fisheries cruiser Frithjof had asked for the life-boat to land a British trawler- hand who was suffering from a severe haemorrhage. There was a moderate westerly wind and a moderate sea.

At 6.50, about an hour and a half after low water, the life-boat Tynesider put out with Professor E. A. Pask, a mem- ber of the Committee of Management and joint honorary medical adviser to the station, on board. On clearing the pierhead the life-boat made radio con- tact with the Frithjof and arranged a rendezvous. The life-boat closed with the Frithjof north-west of the Tyne pier, and the sick man on board the Frithjof, who was from the trawler Dominica, was transferred to the life- boat. The life-boat left the Frithjof at 7.40, and the sick man was landed at the ferry landing at North Shields, where an ambulance was waiting.

Professor Pask accompanied him to hospital. The life-boat finally reached her station at 8.20..