Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.30 a.m. on 9th December, 1966, the honorary medical adviser requested the services of the lifeboat to convey him to attend a sick man aboard the Russian vessel Alatyrles. At 3.55 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings in a rough sea and a strong west north westerly breeze. The tide was flooding. The local pilot, the doctor, and the second coxswain were transferred to the Alatyrles which was escorted to more sheltered waters. The sick man was then transferred to the life-boat which landedhim at the harbour. The life-boat reached her moorings at 4.15 p.m..