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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—On the morning of the 17th of March, 1949, a westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at five o'clock a doctor on the Island of Eigg rang up Mallaig to ask if the life-boat could come to the island to bring back to the mainland a woman with appendicitis. The life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moorings at 5.40.
When she reached Eigg she found the tide so high that the pier was under water and she could not go alongside.
The sick woman and the doctor were brought out in a rowing boat, and the life-boat landed them at Mallaig at ten o'clock.—Rewards, £14 15s.. repaid to the Institution by the National Health Service..