SEAMAN LANDED Anstruther, Fife. At 11.48 p.m. on 4th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that H.M.S.

Diamond wished to land a sick seaman.

There was a smooth sea with thick fog.

It was two hours before high water. At 12.45 a.m. the life-boat James and Ruby- Jackson was launched and, at the middle pier, moored in readiness to meet the Diamond. The sick man was transferred to the life-boat just after 3 a.m. He was taken to the middle pier and from there an ambulance took him to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 3.55..