HELP FOR DUTCH At 2.5 p.m. on 29th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that the Dutch fishing vessel Delft was approaching Spurn with an injured man on board and that a doctor's services were requested. There was a near gale from the north with a rough sea and it was just before low water. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched, and at 4.30 the doctor was put aboard the vessel.

Twenty minutes later both doctor and patient boarded the life-boat which made for Grimsby, where the injured seaman entered hospital. With the doctor on board, the life-boat reached her station at 7.50..