HOSPITAL CASE At ii a.m. on i3th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man on board the motor vessel Olna Firth, of Newcastle, needed hospital treatment.

The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 11.25 in a light breeze from the north-west and a moderate sea.

It was three hours before low water. She reached the motor vessel, took the sick man, who had a suspected perforated ulcer, on board, and reached the harbour at 11.30 where an ambulance was waiting..