Howth, Co. Dublin. On the morning of the 8th December, 1961, the Baily lighthouse keeper informed the honor- ary secretary that an elderly man on Lambay Island, who had recently under- gone an operation, was in urgent need of hospital treatment. Because of severe weather it was not possible to use a local boat, and at 9.25 the life-boat R.P.L.

put out. There was a south-easterly gale and a rough sea. It was two hours before high water. The coxswain made for Lambay Island, where the sick man was embarked. The life-boat then brought him to the mainland, when a doctor attended him, and reached her station at 3.20..