Islay, Hebrides. At 8.15 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1960, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that he needed help urgently to convey a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. Owing to dense fog the air ambulance service was unable to operate from Renfrew airport.

The coxswain of the life-boat immedi- ately offered to take the patient to the mainland in spite of the very poor visibility, and at eleven o'clock, one hour after low water, the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings. The patient, who had come by ambulance to Port Askaig, and the doctor were taken on board. After landing them both at Oban the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at four o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th of June.

Rewards to the crew, £26 15s. ; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £1 8s..