Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 11.15 P-mon loth November, 1966, news was received that the Polish motor vessel Elblag, of Szczecin, which was twenty miles south of Lowestoft, had a sick man on board. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson,on temporary duty at the station, was launched at one minute after midnight with the honorary medical adviser on board. It was low water. She met the vessel three miles east of Lowestoft and took the patient off. The life-boat landed him at Lowestoft. The Elizabeth Elson arrived back on station at 2.15 a.m. on nth November..