PATIENT TAKEN OFF ISLAND ESf NEAR GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 8.20 on the morning of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Baily lighthouse keeper that a suspected case of appendicitis on Lambay Island had been reported. The use of the life-boat to bring the man to the mainland was asked for. The life-boat H. F. Bailey, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 9.25 in an east-northeasterly wind of near gale force and a rough sea. It was an hour and a half before high water. The life-boat reached the island and the patient was taken on board. During the return passage to Howth arrangements were made for an ambulance to be waiting at the west pier to take him to hospital. The lifeboat reached Howth at 11.45 and the patient was landed, the life-boat reaching her moorings at 12.15..