Margate, Kent - At 9.39 p.m. on nth July, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v.

Lady Sheena, near the east Margate buoy, required medical assistance. At 9.51 a further message requested that the lifeboat take a doctor to the vessel. The lifeboat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 10.5 with the honorary medical adviser on board.

There was a light southerly wind and a smooth sea. It was one hour before high water. The life-boat went alongside the Lady Sheena one mile north east of Margate and the doctor went aboard. The patient was lowered to the life-boat on a stretcher, under the supervision of the doctor, and the life-boat returned to Margate. The sick man was landed and taken to Margate hospital by the waiting ambulance. The life-boat returned to her station at 11.15..