LIGHTVESSEL MASTER ILL At 12.45 p.m. on 6th February, 1965, the Superintendent of Trinity House informed the honorary secretary that the Master of Scarweather lightvessel was sick and asked for the life-boat to take a doctor out to him. At 1.46 the life-boat William Gammon - Manchester and District XXX was launched with the honorary medical adviser on board. The lifeboat reached the lightvessel and the doctor went aboard. The master of the lightvessel was transferred to the lifeboat and the doctor returned on board.

At 4.15 p.m. the patient was landed on the life-boat slip and conveyed by stretcher to a waiting car and taken to his home..