Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 29th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick woman on the island was in need of medical treat- ment. As there was no doctor on the island and it was impossible for a local boat to reach the mainland, the life- boat W. M. Tilson was launched. She put out at 8.30 in a north-westerly gale with a rough confused sea and an ebb tide. The woman was taken aboard and brought to the mainland, the life-boat reaching her station at eleven o'clock..