At 3 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Tynewood. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched with a doctor on board at 4.20 in a light south westerly breeze and a slight sea. The tide was flooding. Thelife-boat met the motor vessel off the Bull lightvessel and the doctor was put on board. The sick man was found to have died and the body was transferred to the life-boat. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.50 where the body was transferred to a waiting ambulance..