Stromness, Orkneys.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 19th of January, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a sick woman to Scapa, who needed hospital treatment in Kirkwall, as the road to Kirkwall from Stromness was blocked by snow.

At 11.25 the life-boat J. J. K. S. W.

embarked the patient and her son and daughter and put out in a smooth sea, with a light north-westerly bree/.e blowing. She reached Scapa at 12.50 and the woman was landed. The life- boat then embarked four people who were going to Stromness, and food, and returned to her station, arriving at 3.45,—Rewards, £13 13s. 6d. Refund- ed to the Institution by the St. Andrew's and Red Cross Scottish Ambulance Service..