SICK MAN TAKEN OFF BULGARIAN SHIP Newhaven, Sussex. At 11.30 on the morning of the 17th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Bulgarian motor vessel Vassil Levsky of Varna had a sick man on board who needed a doctor. At 11.45 the life-boat was launched with a doctor on board in a light westerly breeze and a smooth sea. It was low water. The lifeboat took the sick man on board and returned to Newhaven, where the man was taken by ambulance to hospital.

The life-boat reached her station at one o'clock..