At 1.50 p.m. on i8th November, 1966, it was reported that the trawler Judean had requested assistance in landing a sick man who needed hospital treatment. At 3.30 the coastguard advised the honorary secretary that the Judean was five miles north of North Smethic buoy. The lifeboat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II, was launched at 3.47 in a strong north north easterly wind and a rough sea. It was two hours after low water. She came up with the trawler by the North Smethic buoy and the injured man was taken off. The life-boat landed him on South Beach.

The life-boat arrived back on station at 4.45..