Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 12.38 p.m.

on 20th December, 1968, the coastguard reported that a sick man aboard the trawler Jamaica required medical attention. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick, with a doctor on board, slipped her moorings at 1.15 in a south westerly gale with a rough sea. It was three hours after highwater. The life-boat came up with the trawler a half mile north of West Holme buoy. The sick man was taken aboard the life-boat and landed at Lowestoft where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 2 o'clock..