INJURED MAN LANDED FROM DRIFTING TANKER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 9.45 a.m.

on Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that an injured man on board the tanker Esso Guildford, 22 miles east of the Codling lightvessel, needed a doctor. At 10.10 the life-boat J. W. Archer, with the honorary medical adviser on board, was launched in a gentle west-north-westerly breeze and moderate sea. It was an hour before high water. The life-boat proceeded to the position given, but when she was 14 miles east of Wicklow she received a message that the tanker had broken down 22 miles east by south of the light vessel. The life-boat found the tanker drifting 36 miles east by south of Wicklow. The injured man was transferred to the life-boat and she returned to her station, where an ambulance was waiting, at 8.10 p.m. Tugs eventually took the tanker in tow to Belfast..