Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.59 a.m. on ist January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the British Ship Sheaf Field stating that a member of her crew was ill and required medical attention. A rendezvous was agreed on at the Sunk lightvessel at 3.30 p.m. The life-boat Edian Courtauld responded at 1.5 p.m. in a westerly gale force wind and a rough sea. It was two hours to low water. The life-boat reached the rendezvous point and took the sick man aboard her at 3.40, finally reaching Felixstowe harbour, where the man was transferred to the waiting ambulance, at 5-3°- The life-boat returned to her station at 6.28..