Coverack, Cornwall - At 3.30 p.m.

on loth August, 1967, the honorary medical adviser told the honorary secretary that his services were required at the scene of an accident on Landkidden beach. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham, with a small boat in tow, was launched at 3.45 p.m. It was shortly after low water. On reaching the beach two members of the life-boat's crew took the small boat inshore, waded waist-highthrough the surf, and transferred the injured woman by stretcher to the lifeboat.

The doctor attended to her aboard the life-boat and she was transferred to a waiting ambulance on return to Coverack.

The life-boat returned to her station at 6.25..