Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 4 p.m. on 9th November, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Spanish trawler Madre-de-Cristo had been badly injured, and it was requested that the life-boat meet the trawler at about 7 o'clock off Baltimore, with a doctor anda priest on board. The life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched at 5.45 in a gentle north easterly wind and a moderate sea.

The tide was ebbing. She met the trawler about ten miles off Baltimore and put the priest and the doctor aboard at 7.15.

Later the patient, together with the priest and doctor, was transferred to the lifeboat which returned to her station, arriving at 8.40. The man, who had broken both legs, was taken to hospital..