Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.28 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Medical Officer of Health for the Shetlands asked if the life-boat would go to Fair Isle and bring back a man who had appendicitis. The weather was too bad for a local boat to make the journey, and at 11.55 the life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland left her moorings. She embarked a doctor at Sandwick and made for Fair Isle in a very rough sea with a strong south-south-east wind blowing. She arrived there at 5.40, embarked the patient, and took him to Lerwick, which she reached at 11.10. The patient was transferred to a waiting ambulance and taken to hospital, where his life was saved.—Rewards, £26 5*..