Homber, Yorkshire - At 3.38 p.m. on November, 1967, the coxswain reported that there was a sick man on board the tanker Peking of Odessa.

The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.50 with a doctor on board. There was a light south westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing. The doctor was put on board the tanker, which was four miles south of Spurn, at 4.30. Hereturned to the life-boat with the sick man at 5.10 and they were landed at Grimsby at 6.15. The life-boat waited for the doctor to return from the hospital and then sailed for her station which was reached at 10 o'clock. The life-boat landed the doctor at 10.15 but owing to the state of the tide she could not be rehoused until 12.15 a.m. on 28th November..