BRINGING A WOMAN WITH CHILD TO HOSPITAL Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 10.21 in the morning of January 18th, 1947, a doctor at Mid Yell telephoned that he had a woman with child on the island of Fetlar who must be brought to hospital at once and there was no suitable boat.

A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing with a choppy sea when the motor life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was launched at 11.8. She reached Hubie, Fetlar, soon after 2.0 in the afternoon, took the patient on board on a stretcher, accompanied by her husband and a nurse, and reached Lerwick again at 6.0 in the evening.

An ambulance met the life-boat and the patient was taken to Lerwick Hospital. The services of the life-boat saved her life. The cost of the service was paid by the Department of Health for Scotland.—Rewards, £17 145..