Humber, Yorkshire - At 11.25 a.m.

on 25th October, 1969, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a sick man aboard the m.v. Angelic Wings of Piraeus, which was anchored 12 miles south of Spurn lighthouse, needed hospital treatment.

After a doctor had arrived at the life-boat station the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 1.53. It was one and a half hours after low water. The doctor was put aboard the motor vessel at 2.15 and was embarked. She had the sick man at 2.55. The life-boat reached Grimsby at 3.38, returning to her station at 5.45..