INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 4.30 on the morning of the 16th May, 1963, a message was received from the motor vessel Middlesex Trader of London, on passage from Montreal to Gdynia, stating that she was off Stornoway, and needed a boat to bring a doctor to a badly injured member of the crew. It was at first suggested that a small pilot boat should take the doctor out, but the wind had increased considerably during the early morning, and the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd therefore left at five o'clock with a doctor on board.

She came up with the motor vessel some five miles off Stornoway and took the injured man on board. The life-boat reached her station at 7.10, and the injured man was taken to hospital..