Aitb, Shetlands.—On the evening of the 6th of March, 1947, a doctor at Walls telephoned that he had a patient, a young woman, with acute appendi- citis. Owing to snowdrifts the only open road was from Scalloway to Ler- wick, but there was ho boat to take the patient to Scalloway. It was decided that the life-boat should take her at daybreak the following morning. The weather was bitterly cold, with snow and a fresh northerly wind causing a choppy sea, when at 6.30 on the 7th of March the motor life-boat The Rankin left for Walls. There she took the patient on board and landed her at Scalloway. An ambulance was waiting to take her to Lerwick, where an operation Avas at once performed and the woman's life was saved. The life-boat got back to her station at 6.45 that evening. — Rewards, £27 2s. 6d..