AIDED ENGINEER'S WIFE At 2.40 p.m. on 9th September, 1964, the coxswain superintendent heard from a Hull shipping agent that the chief engineer's wife on board the cargo vessel Aethon of Piraeus needed urgent medical attention. The ship was lying at anchor in Spurn anchorage in moderate seas with a fresh westerly breeze. At 3.30, with a doctor and nurse on board, the life-boat City of Bradford HI made for the Aethon. The doctor and nurse went aboard to examine the woman and reboarded the life-boat at 4.10 with the patient and her husband accompanying them. The life-boat went to Grimsby where an ambulance was waiting, then returned to her station at 7.15 p.m..