RADIO CAROLINE CALL Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 11.25 a-mon 27 ch January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Caroline, a wireless transmitting station in Ramsey Bay, was suffering from excessive bleeding of the mouth due to dental treatment.

No other boat being available, the lifeboat Thomas Corbett was launched at 12.20 p.m. There was a strong east-northeasterly breeze and a rough sea and it was two hours before low water. The lifeboat reached Radio Caroline at 1.39 and the sick man was taken aboard. The lifeboat landed the sick man and then returned to her station at 3.35 p.m..