IT has happened on a number of occasions that a Life-boat has acted as ambulance in bringing injured men to shore. Another service of this kind was performed by the Appledoie Motor Life-boat on the 10th October. A wireless message was received that the s.s. Copeman of London, on her way home from Algeria, was putting in to Appledore as her boatswain, a Norwegian, had been seriously injured in the head by falling tackle. A tug went out to meet the steamer and took the injured man on board, but she could make no headway against the strong current, so the Motor Life-boat was launched.

With the Life-boat went the Vicar of Appledore, the Rev. H. C. A. S. Muller, a member of the Life-boat Committee, who could speak Norwegian, and the man was safely landed. Dr. W. A.

Valentine, another member of the Lifeboat Committee, and a St. John's Ambulance were waiting for him, and he was taken at once to the Bideford Hospital, where Mr. Valentine sewed up his wound..