Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there must be brought to hospital at once. It was a maternity case and it was now a matter of life or death to both mother and child. A north-east wind was blowing, with a choppy sea, and it was very cold. The motor life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was launched at 4.0 in the afternoon, reached Quarff thirty-five minutes later and embarked the woman and her husband. She landed them at Lerwick at 5.30. The woman was operated on at once and a boy was born during the evening.—Rewards, £7 10*., which were paid by the Depart- ment of Health for Scotland..