Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.45 P-m- on J6th September, 1966, the honorary secretary heard the local fishing vessel Craighall, which had a sick man on board, asking Stonehouse radio for medical advice. The doctor at Aberdeen was not able to make a definite diagnosis so the honorary secretary telephoned the doctor concerned and offered to take a local doctor out to the vessel. This offer was accepted and the life-boat Tynesider was launched at 12.34 a.m. on iyth September with a doctor on board. There was a moderate to fresh south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was one hour after low water. She met the motor fishing vessel Craighall thirty two miles off the Tyne and manoeuvred close to the trawler's quarter. Choosing the right moment the coxswain took the life-boat alongside and the doctor jumped aboard the vessel.

The Craighall continued her passage to North Shields at full speed while the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 9.5. Once aboard the fishing vessel the doctor gave the patient a morphine injection and asked that an ambulance stand by. The vessel arrived at North Shields at 8.20..