OPERATION AT SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5 a.m. on nth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Rose of Lancaster of Liverpool had a sick man on board who required medical attention. There was a fresh north-easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and the tide was flooding. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick set out at 5.27 with the station honorary medical adviser on board and reached the vessel at 6.15, about three miles off Lowestoft. The doctor boarded the motor vessel and had to perform a minor operation on the seaman before he could be transferred to the life-boat. The seaman was landed at the inner harbour and taken to hospital by ambulance. The life-boat returned to her station at 8.10..