Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 7.42 p.m. on loth April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ormsby Queen had an injured man on board. At 10.35 the trawler requested the help of the life-boat to convey the man ashore as she could not enter the harbour because of the thick fog and shallow water at the harbour entrance. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick left her moorings at 10.45 in a lignt north-easterly wind and a slight sea. The tide was in flood. After searching for an hour in the thick fog the life-boat located the trawler near the North Gorton buoy and went alongside.

The casualty was transferred to the lifeboat, which returned to Lowestoft, where the man was taken to hospital. The lifeboat arrived back at her station at 2 a.m..