PATIENT ON BOARD .TANKER Wick, Caithness-shire. At 6.30 p.m.

on 2Oth December, 1963, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that the tanker Himan had a crew member on board suffering from appendicitis. The local pilot boat was unable to land the man on account of the weather. There was a fresh north-easterly breeze with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The lifeboat City of Edinburgh set out at 7.45 and the man was transferred from the tanker and safely landed at Wick. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 9.30..