Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.29 a.m. on 14th April, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that there was a sick man on board the Cross Sands lightvessel. The lifeboat Khami with a doctor on board slipped her moorings at 2 o'clock.

There was a fresh north easterly wind with a moderate sea. The tide wasflooding. The sick man, who had had a stroke, was transferred to the lifeboat, which brought him ashore at 4 o'clock. An ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital. The oxygen equipment carried on board the lifeboat was used on this occasion and the man's life was saved by the services of the life-boat..