APPENDICITIS PATIENT Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.30 a.m.

on 4th January, 1964, a ship's agent in Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S. Doriefs of Monrovia had on board a sick man suffering from appendicitis. The vessel was due two days later at Spurn, where she was to anchor for three days awaiting a berth. At 5 a.m. on 6th January the life-boat crew were assembled and the coastguard was asked to report when the vessel was sighted. There was a light northwesterly breeze with a slight sea, and the tide was flooding. At 6.13, after a report that the vessel had been sighted, the lifeboat City of Bradford HI was launched and reached the vessel at 6.55. The sick man was transferred to the life-boat and landed at Grimsby at 7.55. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 8.50. The owners made a donation to the Institution's Funds..