DOCTOR TAKEN OUT TO TRAWLER Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.18 on the night of the 7th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had been taken ill on board the trawler Winmarleigh of Fleetwood and needed medical help.

At 11.40 the life-boat Edward Z.

Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, put out with a doctor on board.

The weather and sea were calm. It was high water. The life-boat reached the trawler five miles south of Portpatrick, and the sick man was taken aboard.

The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 12.35..