OCTOBER 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

At 4 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth asked that the life-boat should take out a doctor to H.M. Trawler 677, which was two miles N.E. of Sheringham.

A moderate W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell. The motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was ready for launching within fifteen minutes, but no doctor was available and, after waiting another fifteen minutes, the life-boat left without him. She found that the master of the trawler insisted on the presence of a doctor before allowing the sick man to be moved, and returned to Sheringham.

A doctor was now ready. He was put on board the life-boat by a fishing boat. At 6.15 P.M. the life-boat returned ashore, bringing the sick man, and he was sent to Cromer Hospital by ambulance. - Rewards, £24 11s..