Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a badly injured man on Tearsaght Rock needed a doctor, and the help of the life-boat was requested. The man had cut his head badly, his back was injured, and he could not walk. At 4.50 the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, put out on a flood tide. A moderate north-east wind was blowing. The sea was calm but there was a heavy swell. The life- boat called at Valentia quay to take a doctor on board. The boarding boat was also made ready for towing, as the keeper at Tearsaght Rock had reported that the landing there was awash because of the heavy swell. The life- boat reached Tearsaght at seven o'clock and the doctor was landed by hoist. The injured man was put in the life-boat's stretcher and carried down three hun- dred steps to the hoist. He was then placed in the boarding boat and taken to the life-boat. The boarding boat returned and embarked the doctor, who was taken on board the life-boat. The life-boat returned to Valentia and landed the injured man at Reenard Point, from where he was taken to Tralee hospital. The life-boat finally reached her station at 12.20..