SURGEON AND ANESTHETIST TAKEN TO ISLAND Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd July, 1962, a request was received from the Kilmarnock infirmary for the life-boat to take a surgeon and an anaesthetist to a hospital in Lamlash, Arran, to perform an operation on a man who could not be moved. There were no sailings to Arran during the afternoon, and the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken therefore left her moorings at three o'clock with the two doctors on board. There was a moderate north-westerly wind and a choppy sea, and it was one hour after high water.

A small boat was waiting at Lamlash to take the doctors ashore, and after the operation had been completed the lifeboat returned with them to Troon, arriving at her station at 8.50..