HELICOPTER LANDS SICK MAN IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 6.30 on the evening of Sunday the 14th of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a helicopter was going to land a man at approximately 7.30 from a ship about a hundred miles out.

It was decided to launch the life-boat to stand by as it was doubtful whether the helicopter would have sufficient fuel to reach shore. There was a near gale from the south-south-west with a choppy sea.

A revised time for the estimated arrival of the helicopter was given and the lifeboat /. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched at 8.50 on a flood tide. The helicopter arrived safely and landed the injured man on Castle Hill. The lifeboat returned to her station at 9.35..