"RADIO LONDON" CAPTAIN ILL At 9.55 a.m. on 20th August, 1965,11 was learnt that a message had been received from the Harwich agents of the M.V.

Galaxy, the transmitting station known as Radio London, saying the captain of the Galaxy was ill with suspected appendicitis.

As no other boat was available the life-boat Edian Courtauld was launched with a doctor at 10.37. The sea was slight, there was a light westerly breeze and the tide was flooding. The doctor boarded the motor vessel and examined the sick man who was then taken to Walton by the lifeboat and transferred to a waiting ambulance at 11.55 a.m..