MR. MOYLE, the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, has sent a very interesting story of help given in an unexpected way by the life-boat's radio-telephony set.

On Sunday, 13th February, 1938, the mechanic was testing the set with the radio station at Land's End. While doing this, he got in touch with the trawler Grosmont Castle, of Swansea, which was trying to relay a message through the trawler Kilgerran Castle, also of Swansea, to the radio station at Valentia, off the south-west coast of Ireland. Her skipper wanted medical advice for a member of his crew who had been seriously injured. The trawler was then 180 miles from the Isles of Scilly.

The mechanic joined in and offered to bring a doctor at once to speak on the life-boat's radio-telephone. He then rang up Dr. W. B. Addison, formerly honorary secretary of the station,' and the doctor came at once. While he was on his way, the trawler had got its message through Valentia to the Cork Hospital, and Cork Hospital had sent back advice.

When Dr. Addison arrived the skipper of the trawler said that he would be glad of his advice also, and at Dr. Addison's request explained the injuries—a broken jaw and an ear almost severed from the head—what he had done before getting through to Cork Hospital, and what the hospital had advised. Dr. Addison gave some further advice, and between him and the doctors at Cork, the trawler's skipper was told exactly how to dress the wounds; how the patient should he; and that he must have no stimu- lants, and only a little liquid food, given in small quantities with a tea-pot.

This conversation across 180 miles was carried out partly direct with the Grosmont Castle and partly with the Kilgerran Castle, which, though thirty miles farther away, had a more powerful telephony set, and was asked to repeat such parts of the Grosmont Castle's message as could not be clearly heard.

This was on the Sunday. On the following Thursday, the mechanic again heard the Grosmont Castle on the air, asked after the injured man, and was told that he was making fair progress..