PRIEST TAKEN TO STORM-BOUND ISLAND Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 5.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 30th August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a call from the priest of Tory Island, who was stormbound on the mainland, that a woman was dangerously ill on the island and had asked for a priest. The life-boat Edward 7.. Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 7.30 for Burtonport, but the priest was involved in a car accident and did not arrive at Burtonport until 9.30. He embarked in the life-boat, but about half way across the Tory Island lighthouse reported that owing to heavy seas landing on the island was impossible.

It was low water with a strong breeze from the south-west. The life-boat then returned to her station. At ten o'clock the following morning the life-boat again put to sea and arrived at the island at 1.30 p.m. and landed the priest. The life-boat returned to her moorings at four o'clock..