SICK MAN TAKEN OFF U.S. NAVAL VESSEL Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the United States naval vessel Upshur, which was 32 miles north-east of Fraserburgh, had a sick man on board who needed medical help.

There was a light easterly breeze blowing with a slight sea. The weather was cloudy. The life-boat The Duchess of Kent was launched at 5.34 on a flood tide with a doctor on board. She came up with the Upshur at 6.40, and after examining the patient the doctor decided he needed hospital treatment. The sick man was transferred to the lifeboat, which returned to Fraserburgh, arriving at 7.40. An ambulance was waiting on the pier to take the man to hospital. The life-boat was rehoused at 7.50..