Alth, Shetlands. — At ten in the morning of the 10th of March, 1952, a doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him to the island of Foula where a woman was seriously ill. The weather was too bad for an ordinary boat to put out. The life- boat The Rankin left with the doctor at eleven o'clock. The sea was very heavy with a moderate north-north- west gale blowing. The life-boat reached Foula at three that afternoon.

The doctor found that the patient was too ill to be taken to Aith, so he treated her, left her in the charge of the island's nurse and was brought back by the life-boat which reached her station again at 10.30 that night.

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