Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of the 25th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honor- ary secretary that the trawler Aldershot had an injured man aboard, who needed medical assistance, and that she was expected to be off the Butt of Lewis at one o'clock in the morning. At 10.35 the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd put out with a doctor on board. There was a westerly wind of near gale force with a rough sea, and the tide was flood- ing. At two o'clock the life-boat met the Aldershot four miles south-east of the Butt of Lewis, and the doctor was put on board. After the patient had been treated the trawler and life-boat made for Stornoway, and off the entrance to the harbour a member of the life-boat's crew was put aboard the trawler to act as pilot. The injured man was taken to hospital, and the life-boat returned to her station at 6.45..