Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 6.5 on the morning of the 24th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fish- ing vessel Colinne of Ullapool had a badly injured man on board who needed medical aid. A strong south-easterly wind was blowing and the sea was rough. It was low water. At 6.45 the life-boat James and Margaret Boyd put out with a doctor on board. She met the Colinne off Portnaguran, and the doctor was transferred to her. The life-boat and the Colinne then returned together to Stornoway, where the injured man was taken by ambulance to hospital. He was a member of the fishing boat Wave Crest and had been badly crushed when that vessel had shipped a heavy sea off the Butt of Lewis. The Wave Crest had developed engine trouble and had asked the Colline to take the injured man on board. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.10..