INJURED MAN LANDED FROM DUTCH COASTER Dungeness, Kent. At 9.50 on the morning of Friday the 27th September, 1963, the honorary secretary telephoned the coxswain to say that the Dutch coaster Helvetia, loaded and bound for Exmouth, had an injured man on board.

The crew and helpers were assembled at 9.55, and the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched three minutes later and met the ship a mile south-west of Dungeness Point. The tide was at half ebb with a moderate breeze from the west.

Owing to a steep sea the ship's master was asked to come into the lee of Dungeness Point where the seaman was taken off. He was later transferred to an ambulance and taken to hospital. The life-boat was rehoused at 11.15..