Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1951, the Zetland medical officer for health asked if the life-boat would take a doctor to Fair Isle to treat a sick man, as the regular mail boat was under- going repairs. At 1.58 the life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland left her moorings, embarked a doctor at Broonies Taing and made for Fair Isle in a heavy swell with a light northerly breeze blowing. She arrived just before eight o'clock that night and the doctor went ashore in a small boat.

About half an hour later-the patient and doctor were taken on board the life-boat which set out for Lerwick.

She wirelessed for an ambulance to be ready, but the man died before she reached Lerwick. The life-boat landed his body at her station at 2.30.—Re- wards, £28 5s. No expense to the Institution..