INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF SWEDISH VESSEL Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9.38 on the morning of the 6th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Sommen of Gothenberg had wirelessed for medical help as a seaman had a badly injured hand. After arrangements had been made for a doctor and ambulance to be available and a rendezvous with the motor vessel had been agreed the life-boat Michael Stephens left her moorings at 12.50 with the doctor on board. There was a light southwesterly breeze and a choppy sea.

It was low water. The life-boat met the Sommen four miles east of Lowestoft and put the doctor on board. The injured man was transferred to the life-boat and landed at Lowestoft, where an ambulance took him to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at three o'clock..