Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received an urgent message from the doctor at Gaveedore that the resident nurse on Tory Island had fallen while trying to reach an expectant mother on the island and had broken her arm.

The doctor wanted the nurse and the patient to be transferred immediately by life-boat to the mainland. There was a fresh south-westerly wind and a rough sea with a flood tide, and because of the weather a local boat could not be used.

At 2.30 the life-boat W. M. Tilson put out. When she reached Tory the nurse and two expectant mothers were taken on board. They were brought to the mainland, and the life-boat then re- turned to her station, arriving at eleven o'clock..