PATIENT AND NURSE TAKEN OFF ISLAND Longhope, Orkneys. At 9.20 a.m. on Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the Island doctor told the honorary secretary that a seriously ill patient required immediate hospital attention. There was a light northerly wind with a calm sea when the life-boat T.G.B. was launched at ten o'clock with the patient and district nurse on board. They were taken to Scapa pier where an ambulance was waiting. The life-boat reached Scapa Pier at 11.35 and returned to her station at 2.5 p.m..