Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 10.10 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1951, the County Medical Officer of Health tele- phoned and asked that the life-boat take a doctor to Fair Isle to attend a man with appendicitis. At 10.50 the life-boat John Russell, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings.

She embarked a doctor at Broonie's Taing and made for Fair Isle in a very heavy sea with a moderate south- south-west gale blowing. Here she took the patient on board, wirelessed for an ambulance to meet her at Lerwick and landed the man there at 12.50 next morning. She had spent fourteen hours at sea and saved the man's life.—Rewards, £25 1*. No expense to the Institution..