St. Ives, Cornwall. At 1.35 p.m. on I5th December, 1965, a doctor informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the tanker Esso London and asked if the life-boat would convey a doctor to the ship, which was heading towards St. Ives Bay.

At 2.5 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando & Eva Child was launched with a doctor on board in a moderate westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was one and a half hours to low water. The lifeboat came up with the tanker four miles north-west of St. Ives Head at 3.5 and the doctor was transferred to the Esso London.

The doctor and the sick man were later transferred from the tanker to the life-boat which conveyed the patient to St. Ives beach, where an ambulance was waiting to take him to West Cornwall Hospital at Penzance. The life-boat reached her station at 4 p.m..