HAD APPENDICITIS At 11.30 a.m. on yth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Invicta, a transmitting station on Redsand Towers, had appendicitis and needed medical treatment. There was a rough sea with a strong north-easterly breeze when, 11 hours before high water, the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 12.50 p.m. The honorary medical adviser accompanied her and on reaching Redsand Towers went aboard to see the sick man. The man was transferred to the life-boat and from there to a hospital at Southend. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.35..