Whitby, Yorkshire. At 5.24 p.m. on I3th August, 1965, news came that the S.S. Cardiganbrook had radioed for a doctor to meet her off Whitby as a man had been injured. The steamer's estimated arrival time at Whitby was 6.20 and at six o'clock the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched with the honorary medical adviser on board. There was a moderate south-easterly breeze, a moderate sea and it was high water. The steamer was met and the doctor went aboard to examine the boatswain, who had fallen from a hatch. A suspected fracture of an arm as well as a dislocated shoulder were diagnosed. The injured man was strapped to a stretcher and taken aboard the life-boat which then radioed for an ambulance to meet her on her arrival at the harbour, which was reached at 6.35 p.m..