Appledore, Devon. At 12.45 P-m- on 15th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on Lundy Island had broken his leg.

Arrangements were being made for him to be taken off by helicopter but the lifeboat was asked to stand by. There was a fresh south-easterly breeze with a moderate sea, and it was almost low water. The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker left at 1.8 but while on passage to the island a message was received by radio telephone that the injured man had been taken off by helicopter. The life-boat was recalled and arrived at her station at 4.15..