Ballycotton, Cork - At 2.50 a.m. on 3rd September, 1966, the Garda informed the coxswain that the trawler Virtue Petit, of Milford Haven, was steaming to Ballycotton with a seriously injured man on board. The life-boat Ethel Mary left her moorings at 3.5 and after embarking a doctor and a nurse, proceeded to meet the trawler. The doctor and nurse were put aboard the trawler where they attended to the injured man. The doctor, nurse, and the injured man were taken off by the life-boat at 5.45 and landed on the quay.

The patient was transferred to an ambulance and taken to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30..