Walton & Frinton, Essex - At 2.4 a.m. on 25th May, 1967, it was learned that there was a sick man on board the tanker Daleward who needed to be brought ashore for medical attention. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 2.38 in a gentle west south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The Daleward was met at the Rough Towers buoy and the sick man embarked. The life-boat then proceeded to Harwich, arriving at 4.57, where an ambulance was waiting to take the man to hospital. She returned to her station at 7.48..