St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At noon on 3ist October, 1966, a seaman aboard the freighter Akbar Jayanti, of Bombay, required medical attention, as a cockroach had crawled into his ear, causing severe earache. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at 2.30 p.m.

with the honorary medical adviser on board. She met the freighter at the Spanish Ledge buoy and put the doctor aboard.

He removed the cockroach from the seaman's left ear and treated one other seaman. The doctor was then taken off by the life-boat which returned to her station, arriving at 4.30..