Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 9 p.m. on 20th October, 1966, the honorary secretary intercepted a radio message from the Norwegian liner Braemar, of Oslo, requesting that a helicopter take off a sick man. The coastguard, however, was unable to arrange for the assistance of a helicopter. The life-boat Tynesider with the second coxswain in command was launched at 9.50 with a doctor on board and a supply of blood as it was thought the patient might require a transfusion. It was one hour after high water. The life-boat came up with the Braemar twenty five miles from the Tyne and, despite the swell, the second coxswain took the life-boat alongside, thus enabling the doctor and one of the life-boat's first-aiders to scramble aboard the liner. The Tynesider then returned to her station, arriving at 4 o'clock. The Braemar headed for North Shields where the patient was taken to North Shields hospital..