LIFE-BOAT TAKES SICK MAN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.45 on the evening of the 23rd February, 1962, the Humber Conservancy Board in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a sick man on board the Bull lightvessel needed urgent medical attention and asked if the life-boat could bring him ashore. The life-boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 6.55 in a fresh east-north-easterly wind and a moderate sea. It was one hour before high water.

The sick man was taken off the lightvessel and landed at Grimsby, where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital. Because of the very strong tide the life-boat was not rehoused until the next day..