Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 10.20 p.m. on 3151 August, 1966, a doctor was urgently required aboard the m.v. Hudson Strait, making for Yarmouth Roads. There was a light north west by westerly breeze with a slight sea. At n.8, as soon as the doctor was available, the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched and took him to the casualty.

The doctor decided that the patient required hospital treatment. He was transferred to the life-boat, which took him to a waiting ambulance at the life-boat station, arriving at 12.6 a.m. on 1st September..