Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.

At 12.36 a.m. on zoth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of many foreign trawlers which had been sheltering in Berwick bay during a gale had just fired red flares.

There was a slight sea with a gentle westerly breeze. The tide had been making for some three hours. At 12.55 the life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched and on reaching the trawler Rimer of Gdynia found that one of the trawler's crew was suffering from intense abdominal pains. He was landed immediately and taken to Berwick Infirmary. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30..