Stornoway, Hebrides. At 7.40 on the evening of the 1st of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Russian trawler was due to arrive off Stornoway about one o'clock in the morning with a sick woman on board who needed hospital treatment. The coastguard asked if the life-boat could meet the vessel and take the patient off. The life-boat J.J.K.S.W., on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 1.40.

It was high water, and there was a light south-south-easterly wind and a choppy sea. By two o'clock visibility had become very poor because of fog, and as the trawler had not arrived the life-boat returned to her moorings. She put out again at 4.37 after a message had been received stating that the trawler Koltsov would be off Stornoway at five o'clock. The life-boat met the trawler three miles off Stornoway light- house and took the patient, who was a stewardess suffering from appendicitis, ashore, arriving at 7.30. The Russian doctor and the trawler's mate, who had accompanied the woman to hospital at Stornoway, were returned to their vessel by the life-boat during the afternoon.

Rewards to the crew, £9 Is..