Lowestoft, Suffolk - At i o'clock on 3rd July, 1966, the liner Dunera reported that a 13 year old girl on board had acute appendicitis and required immediate hospital treatment. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded at 1.30.

There was a light north-easterly wind and a slight sea. It was low water. The lifeboat met the liner off the Gorton lightvessel and the patient was transferred to the life-boat together with a doctor. The lifeboat returned to her station at 4.50..