Aith, Shetlands.—At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October, 1953, the doctor at Walls rang up to say there was a case of serious illness on the island of Papa Stour, and the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to take him to the island. At 3.45 the life- boat The Rankin put out in a very heavy sea, with a strong south-westerly breeze blowing. She brought the doc- tor to Papa Stour, and a small boat took him ashore. When he had treated the patient the life-boat took him back to Aith, arriving at 7.30.—• Rewards, £10 195..