AIDING THROMBOSIS PATIENT At 1.35 a.m. on 26th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Eminence bound from Sunderland to Goole wished to land a sick seaman at Whitby. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at two o'clock with the honorary medical adviser on board. The life-boat met the vessel about three miles and a half north-east of Whitby. There was a southwesterly wind of near gale force and a rough sea. The doctor was transferred to the Eminence and the sick man was found to be suffering from a thrombosis. He was strapped to a stretcher and lowered into the life-boat which then returned to harbour, arriving at 3.40. The seaman was taken to hospital by ambulance..