PATIENT ON LIGHTVESSEL At 10.37 a-m- on 2^th August, 1964, a superintendent of Trinity House told the coxswain superintendent that a sick man on board Dowsing lightvessel needed urgent medical attention and requested the use of the life-boat. There was a slight sea with a gentle south-westerly breeze. It was two hours before low water. At 12.5 p.m. the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched with a doctor aboard. At 3.20 the doctor boarded the lightvessel. He returned on board the life-boat at 3.45 with the sick man. On reaching Spurn the sick man was taken by ambulance to Hull. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.50..