TAKEN TO HOSPITAL At 2.30 p.m. on 2nd December, 1963, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a sick patient required to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment.

The honorary secretary agreed to use the life-boat since the weather was bad and no other boat was available. There was a gale from the south-east with a rough sea.

The patient and a nurse were embarked and the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson set out at 3.30 on a flooding tide. The patient was landed at Rossaveel on the mainland and carried to hospital by a waiting ambulance. The life-boat returned to her station at 7.15..