St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At about 6.15 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, a doctor, a member of the local life-boat committee, asked for the life-boat to be launched to take to Penzance a young man who was suffering from acute appendicitis. The steamer serving the islands was over at the mainland, and the doctor said that the case was too urgent to wait for her. The motor life-boat Cunard was launched at 6.45 P.M., and left for Penzance with the patient at 7 P.M. A very strong S.W.

breeze was "blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was thick. The lifeboat reached the mainland at 11.30 P.M. The patient was taken to hospital and an operation immediately and successfully performed. The life-boat sailed again at midnight and arrived at her station at 4.40 A.M.—The expenses of this service were met from the local medical emergency fund..