Stornoway, Hebrides. At 5.45 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1959, the honorary secretary heard from Wick radio station that there was a badly injured seaman aboard the motor vessel Magna of Helsingborg, Sweden, who needed medical attention. At 6.5 the life-boat The James and Mar- garet Boyd put out with a doctor on board in a slight sea. There was a gentle northerly breeze and a flood tide.

The life-boat came alongside the Magna a mile and a half outside the harbour and the injured man, who had fractured his skull by a fall in the engine room, was taken on board. He was brought ashore and conveyed to hospital but died there later. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s.