SICK MAN TAKEN OFF COSTA RICAN STEAMER Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 6.20 on the evening of the 27th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Entopan of Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, had a sick man on board. She was making for Harwich and had asked for the life-boat to take the man off. The life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 6.50. There was a light north-westerly breeze and a slight sea.

It was two hours before low water.

The life-boat met the Entopan at a prearranged rendezvous off the Sunk lightvessel. The sick man, who was suffering from chronic asthma and heart disease, was transferred to the life-boat and landed at Harwich, where he was taken to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station arriving at 3.30..