LIFE-BOATS AS AMBULANCES Lerwick, Shetlands.—At about 2.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1947, the Medical Officer of Health for the Shetlands, telephoned that a woman was seriously ill at Bardister, and must be taken at once to hospital at Lerwiek.

As no other boat was available he asked if the life-boat would do it, and at 3.28 the motor life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland left her moorings with a nurse and stretcher on board. She arrived off Bardister at 7.0 that even- ing. A small boat took the nurse and stretcher ashore, and they returned with the sick woman. The life-boat brought them to Lerwick, where an ambulance was waiting, at-10.50 that night.—Rewards, £17 16s., paid by the Department of Health for Scotland..