Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.30 p.m. on 18th October, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the French trawler St. Joachim was proceeding to Spurn with an injured man on board. The help of the life-boat was asked for to get him to hospital and the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 9.40 in a fresh easterly breeze and moderate seas, with a doctor on board. It was two hours to high tide. The life-boat met the trawler at 11.15 and the doctor was put aboard. The injured man was later transferred to the life-boat and landed at Spurn. The life-boat returned to her station at 11.40 p.m..