Aith, Shetlands. At 12.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the trawler Ben Bhrackie of Aberdeen, which was then twenty-five miles north of Vee Skerries, had been seriously injured. At 1.48 the life-boat The Rankin put out, with a doctor on board, in a fresh south-easterly wind and a rough sea. It was one hour after low water. A rendezvous was made to the west of the island of Papa Stour, where the doctor boarded the trawler.

As the patient was too ill to be trans- ferred, the doctor remained on board, and the trawler proceeded to Scalloway, where the injured seaman was taken by ambulance to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at 6.25. Rewards to the crew, £14 5s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 12s..