The Haisboro' Lightvessel
SICK MAN FROM LIGHTVESSEL LANDED Cromer, Norfolk. At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 9th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from Trinity House, asking if the lifeboat could be launched to take a doctor to a sick man on board the Haisboro' lightvessel. The no. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched with a doctor on board at five o'clock in a light easterly breeze and a smooth sea. It was low water. The life-boat arrived at the lightvessel about 6.30. After making a quick examination of the patient the doctor decided that he should go to hospital. The patient was taken on board the life-boat and made comfortable, and a message was sent for an ambulance to collect him at the end of the pier. The man was landed and taken to Cromer hospital with a serious abdominal complaint. The life-boat finally arrived back at her station at 8.15. The sick man made a gift to the life-boat crew..