Islay, Hebrides.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1957, the Resident Medical Officer of the Island of Colonsay asked if the life-boat would convey a young woman suffering from appendicitis to Port Askaig in order that she could be taken to a Glasgow hospital. At 12.40 the life- boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out in a smooth sea. There was a gentle south-south-easterly breeze blowing, and the tide was flooding. The lifeboat arrived at Colonsay one hour and a half later, and the young woman and her mother were taken on board.

The life-boat then made for Port Askaig, which she reached at three o'clock. An ambulance was waiting to take the young woman to a local airport and thence by air to the hospital. The life-boat arrived back at her moorings at 5.45.—Rewards to the crew, £8; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s. Refunded to the Insti- tution by the St. Andrew's and Red Cross Scottish Ambulance Service..