SOS FROM HULL Humber, Yorkshire. At about 4.50 p.m. on 8th October, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the Hull agents of the S.S. Baron Berwick asking if a doctor could be taken to the ship as there was a sick man on board.

The ship's agents then telephoned the doctor who told the coxswain when he would be available. Half an hour later the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched with the doctor on board. The tide had flooded for an hour and a half; there was a moderate breeze from the south-west and a slight sea. The life-boat came up with the Baron Berwick, of 2,800 tons, on passage from Middlesbrough to Hull, two and a half miles south-south-east of Spurn lighthouse. The doctor was put on board at six o'clock and after treating the patient returned on board with him at 6.30. On the return journey the man had to be restrained from leaving the lifeboat's cabin by the doctor and members of the crew. The life-boat arrived at Grimsby at 7.40 where an ambulance soon arrived and transferred the patient to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 8.45. The owner of the Baron Berwick made a donation to the funds of the Institution..