Aith, Shetlands.—At eleven on the night of the 19th of November, 1948, a doctor telephoned that one of his patients on the Island of Papa Stour had met with an accident and asked if the life-boat would take him there.

A whole gale was blowing from the south-south-east with very heavy seas and sleet squalls. A quarter of an hour after midnight the motor life-boat The Rankin left her moorings with the doctor aboard, and landed him at Papa Stour in a small boat. Later, with much difficulty, the life-boat took aboard the doctor and his patient-—who had a fractured thigh-—-and returned with them to Aith, arriving at 5.20 on the morning of the 20th. There an ambulance took the injured man to a hospital at Lerwick.—Rewards, £1415s..