Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.30 on the 5th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a man on board the trawler Arctic Brigand who was suffering from an epileptic fit and required immediate medical attention. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 2.30 p.m. in a moderate south south easterly breeze and a moderate sea. It was one and a half hours to high water. The life-boat with the honorary medical adviser on board went to a position half a mile east of Whitby buoy and waited for the Arctic Brigand, which arrived at 3.10. The honorary medical adviser was transferred to the fishing vessel only to find that the man had died. He then decided to transfer the body to the life-boat, which was landed at Whitby at 4.10..