At 2.10 a.m. on 2Oth July, 1967, news was received that there was a sick man on board the Dutch motor vessel Alme. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed, with a doctor on board, was launched at 2.43 in a moderate south westerly breeze and a slight sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat met the Alme three and a half miles east north east of Trimingham High Mast. The doctor was put aboard. After attending to the sick man the doctor wasre-embarked and the life-boat returned to her station at 6 o'clock..