INJURED ENGINEER At 8.5 p.m. on i2th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Swedish motor vessel Virtala had radioed for medical assistance for an injured engineer, reporting that the engines were out of commission. The sea was rough with a fresh south-easterly breeze and it was some three hours before high water. At 8.25 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent put to sea with a local doctor aboard. Keeping a straight course and using her direction-finding gear, she came alongside the Virtala at 11.40 after a passage of about 30 miles. The doctor supervised the lowering of the injured man by stretcher into the lifeboat which made for Brixham, arriving at 3 a.m. The injured man was taken to hospital by ambulance. The Virtala's owners made a gift to the life-boat crew..