Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1957, an urgent call was received from a doctor that there were two very sick women on Tory Island. At 12.30 the life-boat W. M. Tilson put out in a heavy swell. The tide was flooding. She reached Tory Island and took on board the two women, who were both suffering from acute appendicitis. The women were landed at Curransfort, and taken to hospital, where they were operated on immediately. The life- boat returned to her moorings at 7.35.

—Rewards to the crew, £20 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l 195.

Refunded to the Institution by Done- gal County Council..