Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.30 p.m. on 8th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the tanker Springwater had an injured man on board and a doctor was urgently required. At 7.14 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched with a doctor on board in a gentle breeze from the south-west and a slight sea. The tide was ebbing. At eight o'clock she reached the tanker and put the doctor on board.

The injured man, who required hospital treatment, was transferred to the life-boat which landed him at 8.51 p.m. at Southend- on-Sea, where he was conveyed to hospital by ambulance..