SICK MAN LANDED Bringing sick people ashore from ships for prompt hospital treatment is another frequent call on the life-boat service. At 10.18 p.m. on llth February, 1971, it was learnt that the Gaelic Ferry of London was steaming towards the North Smithic buoy with a sick man on board.

The life-boat Will Henry and Mary King of Bridlington was launched at 10.45 with a doctor on board. There was a moderate south south westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing.

At 11.30 the life-boat came up with the motor vessel and the doctor, second coxswain and a first-aider were put on board. The life-boat then escorted the motor boat to calmer waters and at 12.30 a.m. the sick man was transferred and the doctor and first-aider re-embarked. He was landed at Bridlington where an ambulance was waiting. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.5 next day..