At 5.34 p.m. on 26th May, 1967, it was learned that Deal coastguard had intercepted a call from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline asking for assistance to bring ashore a crew member with a badly burned arm. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 6.8 in a gentle westerly breeze and achoppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The injured man was embarked and taken to the pier where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 7.6. The owners made a donation to the Institution's funds..