MEMBER OF LIGHTVESSEL'S CREW BROUGHT ASHORE Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.43 on the morning of the 20th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the master of the Dowsing lightvessel had asked if the life-boat would take a sick man ashore for medical attention. There was a gentle westerly breeze with a slight sea.

The life-boat City of Bradford III put out at 4.58 on an ebbing tide. She came up with the lightvessel at eight o'clock and took on board the sick man. The life-boat arrived back at Grimsby at noon, when the man was put into a waiting ambulance. She remained at Grimsby until the tide was right for rehousing and arrived back at her station at 4.30 in the afternoon..