Aith, Shetland*. — At 6.15 in the evening of the 22nd of March, 1948, a telephone message was received from a doctor that a man was seriously ill on the island of Papa Stour. A north- north-west gale was blowing with a very heavy sea, and as it was impossible for any other boat to leave the harbour the motor life-boat The Rankin was launched at 9.30 with a doctor on board. The patient was found to be seriously ill, and though the doctor would have liked to move him at once to the mainland, he did not dare expose him to the long sea journey in a gale.

The life-boat brought the doctor back, arriving at her station at 2.30 the following morning. •— Rewards, £14 15s. Repaid to the Institution..