APPENDICITIS PATIENT At 1.50 p.m. on I4th October, 1963, a doctor told the honorary secretary that he had a patient with appendicitis who required hospital attention. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 2.30 in a moderate southerly breeze and smooth sea. It was two hours before high water. The patient was embarked and taken to Rossaveel. The life-boat returned to her station at six o'clock..