SICK MAN ABOARD Lerwick, Shetlands. Shortly after midnight on the 3Oth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Splendour, seventy-five miles eastby- north of Lerwick, had a sick man on board who needed medical treatment. At three o'clock a doctor spoke with, the Splendour by radio-telephone and at five o'clock the life-boat was asked to launch, with a doctor on board, to meet the vessel which was making for Lerwick. There was a gentle southerly breeze with a choppy sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth launched at 5.25 with the life-boat honorary medical adviser on board and contacted the fishing vessel at 6.48. The doctor was transferred to the Splendour which followed the lifeboat to Lerwick harbour. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 9.9..