DOCTORS TAKEN FOR EMERGENCY OPERATION Troon, Ayrshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 1st April, 1962, the coxswain received a request from the Kilmarnock infirmary for the lifeboat to take two doctors to Lamlash to perform an emergency operation upon a five-year-old boy. No other boats were available. There was a strong westnorth- west wind, the weather was squally, and the sea was rough. At eight o'clock the life-boat Edward Z.

Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, put out on the flooding tide with the doctors on board. The life-boat reached Lamlash at 10.25 and after landing the doctors waited for them to return. At 12.5 the doctors were reembarked, and the life-boat finally reached her station at two o'clock in the morning..