SICK PASSENGER TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

At 11.12 on the night of 15th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Melrose Abbey had a very sick passenger on board who needed the services of a doctor. There was a gentle westerly breeze blowing with a slight sea. When the Melrose Abbey arrived off Gorleston at 12.27 the life-boat Canard, on temporary duty at the station, was launched on a flood tide with a doctor on board. Although visibility had closed in to half a mile, contact was made with the vessel and the doctor was transferred.

The doctor decided the patient should be taken to hospital, and he and his wife were transferred to the life-boat.

The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 2.16, and the patient was taken by ambulance to hospital..