Dr. E. J. Gordon Wallace, the honorary medical adviser to the Weymouth life- boat station, has been awarded a certificate on vellum for the part he played when the Weymouth life-boat put out to a yacht on ipth June, 1967.

At 3 o'clock that afternoon the coastguard told the honorary secretary, Mr.

Kenneth H. Mooring Aldridge, of a message received through Niton radio that a Russian vessel had found a yacht some 15 miles from Portland Bill. The report stated that there were two sick people and a dead body on board the yacht.

The Weymouth life-boat Frank Spiller Locke, which is one of the 52-foot Barnett type, put out at 3.22 with Dr. Gordon Wallace on board. The weather was misty, visibility was moderate, and the sea was smooth. It was 2| hours before high water.

The Russian vessel Viktor Lyagin gave her position at 4.52 as 14 miles from the Shambles lightvessel. The life-boat picked her up on radar. Six minuteslater the Royal Navy patrol vessel, P. 1114, approached the life-boat and asked if she could be of help. As the patrol vessel drew away at high speed the life-boat was drawn in under her port quarter. Slight damage was caused to the brass retaining straps of the fender of the life-boat's port bow.

When the life-boat was a mile and a half from the yacht she received a request from a helicopter from Portland that Dr. Gordon Wallace should be winched into an inflatable Gemini craft from P. 1114. This would enable him to be brought quickly to the yacht.

Dr. Gordon Wallace was winched up, but the winch stuck for a short time, leaving both him and the helicopter crewman suspended in mid air. Shortly afterwards he was successfully transferred to the Gemini and was then put aboard the casualty. This was the yacht Bilberry.

The life-boat came alongside the Bilberry at 5.7 and found one man seriously ill and a dead body. The third man seemed to be in good health.

Dr. Gordon Wallace decided that it would be unwise to transfer the sick man, and the life-boat took the casualty in tow to Weymouth. She reached her moorings at 9.45. The sick man was then taken to hospital, where he was found to be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning..