Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the llth of October, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to convey a child who was seriously ill to Kirkwall hospital. As there was no other boat available, the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman put out at four o'clock with the sick child, the child's mother and a nurse on board. There was a moderate sea, a fresh west-south- westerly wind was blowing, and it was low water. The life-boat reached Kirk- wall at 6.10, and an ambulance took the child to hospital, where unfortunately the child died within half an hour. The life-boat left Kirkwall at 8.15, bringing back the mother and nurse, and arrived at her station at 10.15. For this service the crew and the helpers would accept no rewards..